Nightcap - Nightcap Hour 2: Maxx Crosby WATNS to be a RAIDER + Bleacher Report’s MOST STACKED 2026-2027 NFL Teams + Bills ADDRESS Feedback on Stadium SEATS + Top 10 COACHES on HOT SEAT + Ryan Blaney JOINS Nightcap

Episode Date: August 11, 2026

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I'm not in the business side. I'm not on the third floor. So I don't know. I'm not a mind reader. I'm not the future predictor. I'm just, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to be present. I'm going to be the best.

Raider, I can be for as long as I possibly. You know, obviously, once you're back, you're going to say all the right things, huh? Once you're back, you're going to see all the right things. I'm not sure. When is the last time the Raiders had a winning season? And I'm not saying that in disrespectful way. I think with Derek Carr, right?

I forgot. Yeah, when y'all beat him? Yep. When was that? Old stuff. We don't bring it up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

So I thought maybe it changes he'd ever for him. Probably by the same time y'all wins in the playoff. About four, five years ago, Joe. Maybe 20-21? No. No. Huh? My bad, Joe.

My bad. I don't know. Damn. How I kept the street? Hey. A big cowboy than quarter straight. Yeah, but I think it changed the scene. He would have been good.

Would have been good for him going somewhere where he can compete. I can compete for something. Play for something. Yes. Outside of just being, you know, it is what it is. But obviously, now that he's there, he's going to say all the right things. Yeah. What do you think?

Joe? You think you think Jared Jerry are going to try to pull a rabbit out of his head? He probably Jerry probably trying Uncle Ocho but and I don't know

if that's going to happen, bro. You know, I think Max Prosby is a great he's a great leader, great defender in the position that he plays but I don't think Jerry going to be able to pull that one out,

fellas, I'm sorry. Plus another guy making $30 plus million. Hey, at some point you're going to, like you say, you're going to have to pay deck you're going to pay CD you're going to play man can't pay everybody you can't have all these superstars over there

bro yeah but I mean you're saying the right thing but at some point in time I would think I would like to think Max would like to play meaningful football. Same thing was my same thing right now you're not playing you're miles you know they gave them the green light you know you've done enough yes you've done enough for us

and you would hope you would hope so at some point the Raiders organization feel the same way about miles, I mean, about Miles, about, about Max. Yeah. Tripping. Yeah. I think now, I think it's hard for me to see a scenario if he's not traded before the season start that he's on the routines on the team next year, especially if he gets

starts to feel healthy. Or if they play great football, meaning, I mean, the ratings ain't got a chance. They're young and experiencing a lot. of different places. I mean, Max is really the only guy that I was like, I got to have on the defensive side of football. I mean, they got some okay players,

but Max is, we need to find out how they're going to be offensively. Cousins at the helm. I think cousins opened the season as the week one starter. What the Raiders got over there at receiver? They got Tucker. La Tucker, he fast as hell.

Don't start. We got Brock Bowers. Brock Bowers back. If he's healthy, He won the top tight end in all the football. Let me see Raiders receiving court. Trey Tucker. Oh, Nailer.

They got Naila from Minnesota. I don't know. I don't know Deontay Thornton Jr. Malik Biza. All right. Deontay Thornton is there. Okay. Yeah.

They, they're decent. They decent. They got some playmakers. Bauer's. Keep him healthy. Because that boy can play. Ooh. He can go, boy.

Yeah. Yeah. Trey McBride? Yeah. They would be the future. Bleacher Report has released their most stacked NFL teams ahead in the 2026. Houston, Texans, 1. Rams, 2, Eagles, 3, Detroit, 4, Steelers, 5, Ravens, 6, Broncos 7, C.

Seahawks, 8, 9, Bills, 10. Damn, I thought another team was stacked, though, Cho. that's what a one of my co-hobos Yeah, that's what he's been saying You're talking about my cowboys I mean They didn't talk about your cowboys I mean we can talk about

I'm gonna break them up Hey, we don't mind sitting back in the bushes waiting for you to come by And we jump out on you We ain't tripping, hey, we ain't got to be up in the tabloids on you You ain't got to have us at the top Nathaniel, you hear me

Right, right, right, right We're bringing that thompo partner I'll just let y'all know Okay, okay Hell who doing what? Who doing this, bleach your... Man, nobody trying to hell it. You said we're going to open the season, what?

I ain't say that, Joe, Joe, I'm sorry for you interrupting. You go ahead. Come on, man. I don't want you to lose your phone. Hey, who was number one on that list? The Texans. The Texans. Okay.

Yeah, they load it. They load it. They more loaded than the Rams? But look here, they must have in Pennsylvania because I don't give a dang who they got. If 99 comes back, they need to be... number one. Absolutely. I don't care who they got.

99 and 95 to Gapley. And why was Seattle so low? Because Seattle is still loaded. Don't start me to lie, Ocho, because they, I think their defense did really long. They lost Wolin. Yeah, Tyreek, that was it. He went to Philly.

Because that's why Philly, so, you know, they got Wollon, they got, Kenyon, Kui, and Kui, they got Kouper. They got Kour Dijon, the Jean. The Dene. Do two big D tackles? What's that? What's the other side?

The undersized D-N. He don't wear no gloves. Number three. Oh, you're talking about the kid from Georgia. I can't remember his name. What's his name? Oh, man, I can't think of his name, Ocho. I knew who you're talking about.

He, boy, he thought, boy, he comes, well, he back a buck. Oh, yeah, I like him. Well, he'd be sitting line with, they be pulling. He'd be sitting libel in the ass. You're out of Texas. because the Rams offense. Detroit, the Steelers, damn. Hey, people loving the Steelers this year, Ojo.

What? I mean, when they say loving the Steelers, is it offensively or because of what they have defensively? They say they stacked. You ain't rolling, Ojo? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, they stack. I mean, listen, they were stacked last year.

Oh, hold on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, I see a team ain't up there. Whoa, I know somebody team is up there. Somebody both of that team. Oh, man. And here we go, see. See what I'm talking about, Ocho? See what I'm saying?

Who team you talk about, Joe? He's talking about both his team. Both of my teams are in the top ten. I don't see neither one of your teams. Oh, we ain't worried about being up down because we know what we got. Here, let me turn my light on see if I can find y'all. Hey, we know what we got. We're going to be all right.

Hey, hey, Chad, I got my lighter. Let me see if I can find it right quick. You got chill. Oh, you got to. You got a chill. Damn, Joe, I don't know why they put your team up there. Ain't nothing to them. They're going to win it.

So you don't think none of the teams that they list to the top ten? Oh, no, no, Joe. See, there you go, Joe. Joe, you're not going to go to the game. Even if they do playing it. So what you care. Okay, you know what I'm going to do. But, Joe, you ain't been to a game.

You don't know what I've been. Joe, you're not hard to spot of the Cowboys game, Joe. You say what? You're not hard to spot at a Cowboys game. You've never been. You don't know. I might be up there in the suite with Jerry and the kids now. And Steve and there, yeah.

Joe. Joe, you're not. There's nothing happening. You know, honestly, Joe's the Falcons. Joe is a Falcons fan. Hey, listen, hey, look, look, I know you're an ultra boy. Y'all want to hate on the Cowboys so bad. I can't wait for this.

Yo, I spoke. I spoke glowingly about the Cowboys since we started. Yeah, but you low-key hate on them too, though. Like, you say something great about picking. You'd be like, Joe, y'all, yeah, da-da-da-da. But then, you know, you slick hate, you know what I mean? Joe, I've constantly given the offense, Dak, Pick, and CD absolute credit. The defense hasn't proven themselves.

So what you want me to say? Okay, you got, you got, you got, you know, you got Caleb downs. You got, you know, you do your two-D tackles. But it's so many, it's so many other questions. that aren't answered because y'all ain't played nobody yet. Okay, well, we're going to ask them when the season start, but Uncle always bringing up old stuff. I'm like, man, why did you stay talking about that?

I got it. I ain't say no. Yeah, but I'm going to remind them. I'm like business. No, no, I see what going on. I was thinking about the beautiful day that I had today. Yeah. I can't wait until we see them damn Ravens over.

Uh-oh. And y'all play in September or late in the season? Nah, we play. We play them in Rio. I mean, I'm saying early in the season. Early or late? It's early. Yeah.

Yeah, I hope. It don't matter. I hope. I hope they play after week four because like around week four is when all offenses sort of hit their stride and the chemistry and everything, you know, it starts flowing. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Close enough. El Jacko will be rare for him. So who you got winning on? The cowboy, man. Stop acting crazy. question. Hey, hold on. Hold on. I got a question for Ungdo. You seen what George Pickens and CD have done to many defensive duos, right? Yeah. In the world, are they going to stop

George Piggins and CD Lamb? Marlon Humphrey. You got Wiggins on the other side. What's the answer? Oh, Lord. Gee. I know you got Kyle Hamilton. Kyle Hamilton is arguably the best safety in the NFL. I'm sure the chat would agree. I just want to know, what is the answer to the stopping Cee's Lamb and George Pickens. Hold on. It's weak. Six foot three, 250 pounds,

Deg Henry, that jack hammer. Y'all, it's hard for picking, and what you call it, to get up with the football with the sidelines. What do you think?

We just signed Big Quentin from. We, we clogging up that, uh, them, no, no, no,

no, sir. That man, right? Nah. Nah. Moving him off the ball. Hey, I think that,

I think that, that train to ran through here, man, it's old wood. Oh, for King Henry? Be dominating like that. Oh, there ain't nothing to go on. How is King Aaron?

How is he? A's don't matter with him. It don't matter. It don't matter with him. I just wanted, I just wanted, listen, your problem was being able to stop the run. And they ain't going to stop. You got brother Williams, you got brother Walker. Can you stop the run this year?

Boy, y'all. We're going to find out week three. Hello. Hello. There you go. Say no more. All I want to do, put your heels, son. Put your heels at nine y'all.

come down hill. That's all I want to see him do. Put his heels at night. Hey, Joe. Now, y'all start out, y'all going to start out fired up. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, Joe, we'll see it all fired up. Come third quarter.

Now, they ain't going down. They ain't going down. Boy, you think they're made a D the way they'd be inviting people to see. Right this way, sir. Hey, Joe, long as them, long as, hey, hey, Joe, them boy got to get Derek Henry going east and west, boy. he get to going north and south no no no

I don't know who gonna make that tackle no no no my friend we is not having that that could be Caleb Williams welcome to the NFL moment hey Derek can we come through that A gap that B gap and he meet him

and that and that that that that offensive line it pared like the sea and it's just a safety ooh what's gonna happen what's gonna happen yeah Yeah, okay

Listen, I know you love Caleb Downs I love him too But boy, listen here I didn't see many of grown men Make business decision When Derek Henry get through that Come through that hole, boy That ain't the fight you want to get involved

You know, your first fight You need to be your show victory Hey, you know, you're little The first fight You always got to make you it's, yeah. It worse come to worse. At worst case, it's a draw.

Everybody says it's a draw. I can't take the hell. I can't be the first bite via hell. All right. Thanks. The bills are addressing the feedback after their $2.2 billion stadium debut. A record crowd attended Saturday of scrimpage

but obstructed seats. Small video boards quickly, came the focus of the conversation. The president, the team said in the statement, Saturday's practice was a great opportunity to test the new stadium. We are currently addressing internal and external feedback regarding the facilities operation following the first events. We'll utilize the next six weeks to refine any details as we prefer, prepare for the home

open of September 17th. League sources told front office board that the bills have in fact heard from some of their personal seat license holders regarding sightline related issues. Again, we're going to throw this to Ocho because Ocho said there's so many people which are trying to make the team look bad. Ocho?

I'm still waiting to see the proof. We've seen it yesterday. Man, it ain't... I'm still... Joe. The bills, the league source, League told front office sports

that the bills have, in fact, heard from some of their personal seat license holders regarding sightline related issues, which was what we tried to show yesterday. Ocho said the seat probably wasn't even seats up there. No, I said it was the stairs because I see the railing right there. I ain't never seen the railing right there.

But hey, shoot, ain't my god, ain't my goddamn stadium? That's on them. You know, y'all are y'all stadium? I hope with 20,000 people, Ocho. You didn't get no more crazy. Hey, you ever been to the jungle doing a Monday night, Thursday night,

Thursday night game. It's like that. But ain't, ain't no better environment, boy. Ain't no better environment in Paycor Stadium, boy, at a prime time game, Joe. I don't know what it was called when we were there. We just called, we just called it beat the bingo stadium.

Because that's what happened every time we went to. We never, I never lost you. I never lost y'all. Oh, they go right there. Well, we beat the brakes off, y'all. They go to pitch it right there. Yes. Hey, well, that's so, that show where it's high up, boy.

What the hell? What'd you think everybody? What'd you think everybody? I mean, for you and no league... Club level? You want everybody to see club level? I'm just saying, but you're sitting that high and you worried about being able to see.

Get you some better... Yes. Tickets first. Okay, what about this right here? Them to see, huh? Yeah. Yes. That's bad, that boy.

Yeah, I ain't, I ain't see this... I ain't see that little version yesterday. I told you to put your head over the bad eye. What are you sitting right here? Huh? What if you were sitting right here? Shoot, I'm going to stand up. The whole game?

Hold on. What about the people behind you? They better stand up too. Hey. I guess y'all going to be standing a whole damn game. Because you know people go over and say, hey, Joe, sit down. And listen. Nah, this ain't it.

Yeah, hey. Well, hold on, everything constructed already. I'm trying to figure out what they, what are they going to do in the scenes to get ready to start in two more weeks or three weeks, if that. A, the what they figure it out. That's what they will do. They're going to figure it out. But they said they use this company that's built a lot of the stadiums. How are you not?

I mean, what you do is like, okay, you go around and you look at what team, like, okay, the Super Bowl. What team, what cities normally do, they go look and see how what the previous city and how they did it. and how they organized it. Bro, how you not take something like, man, I really like the new, I really like the new SoFi Stadium. Man, you know what? I like that big jumbotron

that Jerry got in Jerry's world. And I really like, you know, this part of that state. And you kind of take bits and pieces all the while trying to tie it into what, what you are. It ain't that complicated. Hell, you got 800,

you got damn near a billion dollars of taxpayers' money. At least get it right, huh? Man, they build that nice stadium right there. Why Buffalo wants to play in no dome? Because they want to use that at his home field. No, no, no. You can't play for the Buffalo bills and play in the dome, Joe.

Man, come on. Especially when you get to the playoffs, you want team that are coming from warm weather cities that come into that cold weather. They do not use. Feel that. Damn, boy. Oh, Joe, speculation is that they're going to have to make

those seats unsellable. So in other words, they won't be able to sell those tickets. They won't be ticketed seats. Okay, I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. Or you can sell them for a very, very cheap price that people understand that their eye line and vision may be blocked at time depending on what side of the field of the players on. Guess what?

Your eye line going to be blocked. Because somebody going to be going to be going to opposite direction all the time. So somebody, your ally will be blocked every series because somebody going in that direction. Yeah, because I mean, you know, it's kind of like Jacksonville.

Oh, you remember Jacksonville when they started having out, those people started showing up, they put the black tarpoll kind of Miami. You put those black tarpets, ain't nobody sitting up there. Damn. So, I mean, and the stadium, I guess the stadium is a little smaller

than the original rich stadium, the old Buffalo Bill Stadium. So now it's about to be even smaller if you take, you know, because the thing is, look, your money is in the ticket in the suites and things of that nature. And you got to make it

because what else are you going to put your own up and hold up there? It ain't nothing like you can hold a whole lot of stuff. Come January, if it ain't a football game, what are you going to hold there? Maybe hockey. The sabers can use it. But it's not like Mercedes-Benz in Atlanta where you get the national championship,

you get the Peach Bowl, you get the SEC championship. You know what I'm saying? You get high school football games. I mean, what you're going to do? It's not like Jerry's world. You know, you got a big truck, rodeos, you got track to pull,

you know, monster truck series. Yeah, see, that's what you get for not honoring OJ. The ghost of OJ struck again. Put that man, they tell me. They're not going to put his name up in the stadium. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot about that.

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Listen to Unshaken with Gary V on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. He's still a bill. Yeah, one of the best ever, too. Uh, the. The. Yeah, they ain't got three players better than OJ in the history of that franchise. Bruce Smith, Andre Reid,

Jim Kelly, Thurmond Thomas. Want me keep going? I read, those are Joe de LaMilleer. Those are, if I'm not mistaken, I think those are your Hall of Famers. How many of them in front of OJ? That's a good. Hey, that's, man. It's hard, but a Jew.

2,000 yards in the 14 game season. He was the best, he was the best player in football. Forget running back. He was the best player in football. Hey, listen, don't. He don't get the, he, the, he doesn't get the, Because they didn't win. I tell you, well, go ask the Steelers.

When you put $2.50 on the Steelers one Sunday, on the steel curtain. Yeah, don't give you the line. I know, I know J's for the real deal, boy. Yeah, for sure. Six-day Hizman trophy winner. But, Joe, you knew that. I mean, you know, you know, Joe knows how's been trophy winners now. I know some of them.

I'm not to you. I know some of them are. I mean, I don't know. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, me personally. I don't think the Buffalo Bill fans like, oh my God, I'm not coming to a game now because OJ names, the Simpson name is on the facade. It's up in the stadium.

I don't think that would have occurred. You don't think somebody, you don't think they would have spoke on that? No. It was up in the old stadium and ain't nobody spoke on it. I don't know, man. I seen that documentary, bro.

I saw the documentary. I met him several times. O.J. Jews. He used to cover NBC. He was the sideline reporter for NBC.

For real? Mm-hmm. In the early 90s, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, they wet the bed on that, but that's a story for another day. I may or may not have seen those shoes. You have seen

I saw about a Rams game about three years ago, about three, four years. years ago. He's at the Rams game. I think it was a Monday night game. I went to the game. Yeah.

Yeah. The Rams, when the Rams won the Super Bowl and they played, they opened the season against Buffalo. And Buffalo beat the brakes off of him. Yeah. He was at the game. USA Today released their top 10 coaches, the top 10 coaches

on the hot seat heading into 2026. Shane Steichen, the coach, number one. Jets Aaron Glenn, number two. Buccaneers coach, Todd Bow. Number three, Zach Taylor, four, Dan Quinn, five, Nick Seriani, six, Matt LaFleur, seven, Clint Kubiak, how Clint Kubiak on the hot seat? He just got there.

Hold on, well, Aaron Glenn just got there too. You on the hot seat. Man, you know the Joe's don't, man, the Jeff don't play. Listen, I understand that. And most of the time they give us those opportunities, no damn well, we're not going to be able to turn anything around. to turn around, you need at least three to four years to do so. So, hey, it is.

It is what it is. And how the hell is Shane Steichen on the hot seat with the way they played last year? Well, do you remember they got up to that great start, don't you? They were the number one seed in the AFC. And then what's called on? Danny Dimes got hurt. So you can't put the coach on the hot seat when he was playing as well as you were. That lady, she took over, where the three daughters took over.

But one of them in charge, I forget her name. She don't play. And Zach Taylor being on the hot seat, that don't make no sense. Because one thing, one thing you do know about Mr. Brown, if there's a coach in the contract, he's going to play that entirety of that contract out. He's not right. Didn't he just sign of the kitchen? Exactly.

And he ain't firing nobody. So that one don't make no sense. There was somebody else. There's one more name you said that didn't make any sense to me that just got there. Todd Bowles, Dan Quinn, Nick Siriani. Siriani. Okay, Siriani, I can see. Matt LaFlor for the Packers.

Okay, I can see that too. Again, these are situations where you think about the Packers team as great as they are, the expectations are extremely high. The expectations are extremely high over there, and they're feeling if they don't play well this season, which I'm sure they will do because offensively they're good, defensively their sound, I think they might move in in different directions. I can see that happening as great as the Packers are.

Excuse me, not great, as good as the Packers are. Let me see who else Uh I think Ocho he just got the job This is his first year He already on the hot seat

What hell Aaron Glenn just got down How are he on the hot seat already Look what he got to work with And bringing another coach in Still not having Still not having anything to work with It's still going to give the same

God damn results Yeah Gotta have some players And then Patriots Mike Vrable Man All right Now they're just putting anything on that now

They just put anything on there You know, good and well, Mike Vrabble ain't on a hot seat, man The man just went to the damn Super Bowl Know what at that point? What, what is, who is it? Who wrote this? Who wrote this? USA Today?

He made, hey, you know, hey. And they're just filling out names. It's about two or three on that that actually makes sense. Yes. And if they were going to get rid of Vibraibati for the, the trend, even though that doesn't impact, I don't think anything that transpired this offseason and we know what transpired this off season,

does that impact his ability to coach this team? Because when I make a move, I'm looking at it, okay, how does this impact, did his said behavior, does it impact this team? Absolutely not. I wish more people were inside these locker rooms to see how these players really don't give two, you know what? I can't have to.

And I ain't studying what that man got going on. I got my own issues. Hello. My baby mama dragging me, my baby mama dragging me back to court until she wants more money. You think I worried about what the hell he got going on? Hey, hey, uh-huh, say they're a little louder for the people in the back, for the people who find out of me.

Yeah. Joe, I, Joe, I'm for real, man. I ain't worried about what somebody else got going on. I got, but they don't even know. Oh, man. Hey. I just, you know what? I wish,

wish, I don't know how to explain. Hey, um, what you want to dial up over there? Hey, hey, Joe, my co-parents sent five of me. Yeah, we can,

yeah. Oh, that was me. I think that was me, guys. This internet here, we won't be back in this hotel no more. I think it was you.

But you were you on dial up over there? Hey, hey, hey, they ain't got too many more times and mess up with you. You're done with them. I'm done. I'm done. I was done with him this time. They booked this hotel without my knowledge.

But it won't happen again. You're good. You're good. I promise you. You good? Yeah, but whatever coach, whatever code you got going on, as long as it's not a medical emergency, it's not as long as it does involve life and death. And I got my own issues. Like I say, my co-parent got me under the gun. Man, leave me alone. No, no, I ain't done with you yet. What? What do you mean you ain't done with me yet?

Come on, oh, Joe. Come on, Joe. Girl, I ain't bother you. Oh, no, oh, oh, no. The funny thing about it is, I got something for you. It's a cold game, boy. Hey, if you were able to tap in to the lives of each individual player and the issues that they have going on,

along with the so-called scandal between coach and the reporter, they would put what they got going on to shame. Yeah, for sure. It would put it to shame. I mean, people have no, oh, man, it just, I'm not here to speak on that, but. You know what happened, Ocho?

It just because it played out publicly. Damn. Man. You might need a little hot spot over there, boy. Is that a million, the ad person got his life for a seat? It is what it is. Hey, uh, we ain't here nothing you just said, boy. I can hear y'all, though.

Yeah, you can hear his now. Oh, yeah. I thought Joe was froze for a minute. Joe, Joe, wasn't moving. Nah, I'm locked in. I'm locked in to him. Talk about we need a Starlink. I need a new hotel.

Where you were at, what, you had the day? No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. I ain't going to say where I'm, I just won't be here no more.

Don't be messy, bro. Don't be messy. Don't be messy. I'm being messy, man. I mean, I'm just saying, like they got dial up. All right, don't worry about it. I don't know what it is.

I can never get, I can never get phone service on what you call them? Internet service on my phone. Jordan got to hook it up to Jordan Hot spot. Then Jordan leave. I can't get internet no. I'm up. Joe, I have to leave his phone here. I ain't lying, Joe, man.

I said, come on, man. Already do we driving up because I was in the back of the car. I was nodding off. We drive it up. I say, we stay in here. Oh, we got a very, very special guest joining us. What's that? Drive the number 12 car for Penske, Ford, Mustang,

and his night season team owner, Roger Penske. it's 11th full season on the NASCAR Cup season. Here he is, gas on the gas with Ryan Blaney. Ryan, what's going on, man? How are you? Thanks for having me on. Hey, Ed, hey, it. Go ahead, Joe, take it away.

Surprise, man. What's our, baby? How has everything? Man, I'm doing good. Have you recovered yet? I'm still a little nauseous. I'm still a little nauseous. It's kind of, it's kind of affected my relationship a little bit.

And that's, that's another topic for another day. Outside of that, man, again, thank you. Again, thank you. That was a tremendous experience for me, you know, being able to ride with you. And let's take a look at the episode, don't know, what you're talking about. Let's give up the fans an opportunity to see what you're actually talking about. Oh, my goodness. That's crazy.

Are the tires warm? Oh, yeah. So that means we won't spin out. I hope not. Oh, oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Chad, you made it through. I'm appreciative of you sticking with me.

I love you, brother. I had you, I had you back. I had your back. You toughed it out. I feel bad. Yeah? Yeah. I got the, I feel.

Man, I thought. Ryan, how fast were you, how fast were you going, right? I thought we lost Chad, but we were probably going. we probably got up to about 170 right there. Yeah. So we were digging a little bit, not too bad. But man, I give it to you, Chad. You toughed it out, man. That's

not easy to do. You stuck with it all day. It was a hot one. But I appreciate you coming on, man. That was a fun experience. I hope you had a good time. And hopefully we get to keep doing that. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. I think one of the things, obviously, I'm one that enjoys NASCAR. I've been to a few of the motor speedways. Obviously,

on first dates. And I really enjoyed it. People don't understand how difficult it is when you're not in the driver's seat going at 170, 180, 190 miles an hour. So it's weird for me. I get nauseous because I'm not in control. I'm not in control. And when you come up that bank and you hug the wall and I'm trying to get in the seat

with you because I'm scared, you know, we're going to hit the wall and just, though, it's an experience that I can't explain that people. would have to experience for themselves to get a better understanding. And the road course, it's called the road course, right? Yes, sir. That threw me for a loop. I was done.

I was done. Yeah. Were you at walking glitz or no, where were you at? We were at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. So we did the big track in Indianapolis that's been around for over 100 years. Okay, yeah. And then they have a road course in the middle of it. So we got two different types of racetracks that we took Chad on.

Oh, okay. Yeah, so we got the... Yeah, because I was like, you can't get up no, no 170 on the way. No, no, no... No, so we got the 170 on the big track at Indy. Okay, yeah. And then we did the road course, which were probably top speed only 150. But it's a lot more intense, a lot of deceleration, a lot more curve hits, you know.

Yeah. So, Shana, we got to get you in that car, man. You think I can feel it on the past? Hell yeah. All right, well, I'm down. Hey, too, I'm down for that, bro. You know, he's not, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I grow up. He's not going to make it.

Hey, hey, Ryan, you grew, look, you're a third generation. Your grandfather drove cars, your father drove cars, and a lot of these drive, a lot of these, either their grandfather, you know, you're like, uh, uh, um, children, his grandchild, his grandson drives. A lot of these, you know, you grew up around. What was it like growing up in a household where your grandfather, your father drove? Do that what you always wanted to do? Yeah.

Well, as a kid, I just wanted to do what my dad did. Yeah. Like, I was, my dad was my hero. My dad is still my hero to this day. So growing up around watching my dad do a sport, that was really unique. I was just in all of these drivers, like what they could do. And as a kid growing up around that, I got to see all the ins and outs of the sport. You know, not only the cars on the racetrack, but what it took behind the scenes, right?

what goes on in a race shop, how many people it takes to build these cars. I feel like the behind-the-scenes thing, it's the same as football or basketball or whatever. There's a lot more that goes on behind the scenes than what you see on TV, right? It takes a lot of parts and pieces to get everything ready to go. So I got to see that as a young kid, but I was really lucky that I got to do what my dad did because that's just what I always wanted to do and been really fortunate to be able to, you know, make a career out of it. Hey, Ryan, what was your, what was your first race like? Like, was it jittery?

Would you fire it up, like butterflies? Like, what was it like? Man, my first race was, I was nine years old. So I didn't really understand, you know, at the time when you were a kid. It was just something fun to do. But I remember my first professional race when I was 18, like in the first kind of stepping stones in NASCAR. I was nervous this can be because.

you know, I had my people who watched my dad. I'm trying to live up to my dad's expectations, the people's expectations of me. It was a lot of pressure, that's for sure. But I tried to think of it as, hey, this is a great opportunity and make the most out of this awesome opportunity that you have, you know, and enjoy it and have fun with it.

That's easy to say 12 years later. Right. But at the time, at the time, it's really hard to do. So that's why I, you know, when I see these kids who have fathers or mothers that were in sport that they want to do and the pressure that people put on them, I completely understand that. Completely understand. Right.

How hard is it for you not to get a speeding ticket when you drive fast for a living? Contrary to popular belief, I think most race for drivers, I can't speak for most of them, but me in particular, I'm a very slow driver on the roads. Seriously? Very slow driver. Really? If we got to get somewhere fast, my wife is like, let me drive because she's, you know, is the speed demon.

So, man, I'm pretty slow. I'm pretty slow driver on the roads. I get paid to go really fast for my job, and it does not benefit me whatsoever to go fast on the streets. You know what? Go ahead, Joe. Go ahead. I want to say the fact that you go fast for a living,

do you have a passion or do you have any enthusiasm about having fast cars, foreign cars, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, are you really into that stuff being that you normally drive slow? when you're not on the track? Yeah, I mean, I am kind of a car collector. You know, I just enjoy vehicles. My dream car...

You got the 427 car? I don't. I tell you, my dream car, and it's the only reason I have this dream car is when Bad Boys 2 came out. And Will Smith, Mike Lowry, was driving the Ferrari Marinello 550. I thought that was the coolest car.

Yes, 550. ever. So that is my dream car and I've been looking for one. That's silver, the exact same color that he had in that movie. I've been looking for it for years and I cannot find it, but hopefully one day I get to get it. Yeah. But you think about, Ryan, you got, you got the Eleanor Mustang that you could get. You got the, you got the, you got the Shelby, I mean, the Shelby, the truck, you got the round trucks. But you got, I mean, you got so much that came out with this Ford, this supercar, I don't think they make it anymore. You remember the supercar they came out with about 10-50 years ago?

It was the GT, wasn't it? The GT? Yeah, Ford GT. That's exactly what I'm talking about. What are you talking about? Yeah, so they, yeah, so the GT was big, like in the 60s. They ran the ball with it. And then they came out with another one in like 05.

And then they came out with a new version of it in like 16, 17. And we, so I drive for Ford, right? So they gave all the Ford drivers an option. to buy one in 16. And it was my rookie year. I wasn't making any money. I could not. I could not justify.

It was one of those things too. Look back on you, like, you're an idiot for not getting one of the things. But man, I couldn't do it. I couldn't fork it out back then. Matter of fact, the car you're looking for, what was it called again? What's your dream car? It's a Ferrari, Maranello, 550. 550.

Yeah. Okay, okay, okay, listen, I got a friend. of mine down here in Miami. We call him Nunu, and I got another friend named Leroy. They can get me whatever. All right. I could probably find you that car and get you a little half off, get your little discount on it. So I'm going to check him with them tomorrow.

I like discounts. You probably don't want to be called in that car. You don't want to be caught in the car that Nunu got you, right? I'm just telling you. I'm going to be taking it to the shop every week. No, no, no, no. No, no. No, no.

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Oh, man. So you start, so Ryan, you started up with the midge? Yeah. You started driving midget? They were, they're called quarter midgets. They were a go-kart with a roll cage on them. They were really big where I was growing up. So it's a great place for kids to start.

Quarter midgets, go-carts, you know, gosh, I see kids nowadays five years old starting. Yes. Really young. Five? Yeah, it's crazy, man. But I've also seen kids that, you know, they don't start racing until they're 12 or 13, you know? So there's a large age gap of when you can get going. Yeah.

But let me ask you a question. How'd be the horsepower because my brother had a go car. We'd growing up, and he only had, my grandfather would only let him get a three horse power. But you know, they had a three horse power. They had a five, they had an eight. And it went on up after that. And like, my grandfather was like, nah. you ain't getting anything.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's all ranges, right? Like you said, 3, 5, 8. Gosh, they make 20 horsepower carts nowadays that are fast, right? Wow. Yeah, you're not saying because we felt three horse power was moving. You're whipping those horses. Three of them, they're moving.

But go ahead. You got a bunch of accolades. You won the Cup series, All-Star race winners. What's been your proudest? your biggest achievement thus far? I mean, I think when we won the championship in 23, you know, a few years ago, that was a cool experience. And, you know, I talked about my dad earlier.

And to have my whole family there, I mean, my dad, my mom, my sisters who supported me the whole time, who still do. Like, for them to share that moment was great, and especially my dad who was around the sport for a long time, who never got to achieve that. And, you know, I'm a dad now. My son's nine months old. And I could only imagine, you know, of being a dad now. Like, if he picks the sport up like you did.

And I hope he's way more successful than I am. You know, I think just to be proud of your son and to see your dad proud of you. Because that's all I ever wanted to do. I just wanted to make my dad proud, you know, whether it was professionally or in my life. You know, you just want to make your parents proud. And it was cool to share that moment with them because he and I shared a lot of the same similarities from racing. Right. Who's the rival?

Like, I don't know if you remember this, but your dad would remember it. It's like when you had Kail Yarborough and Allison was going at each other and Richard Petty and Darrell Waltrip and these guys like, I don't know if it was contrived, but it just felt like,

nah, bro, if I can't win, I'm not going to let you win. I'm going to put your ass into the wall. You're not winning this razor front. And it's, it's changed a lot. You know, I mean, just like everything, It's changed and it's gotten, I feel like all sports have gotten really commercialized.

Right? I mean, and that's just how it is because you have big companies back in, you know, the teams or the, or whatever, the drivers. So, you know, yeah, back in, like you said, I mean, the Allison's and the Yarbrough fight was what put NASCAR on the mat. Those guys just throwing haymakers. It just leading right behind him and won the race. So I think there's some of that nowadays still, but I don't think you're going to see that. stuff is what it used to be, but it's just because, you know, there's a lot on the line. But yeah, maybe one day, hell, I might just have to start throwing haymakers.

I don't know. I don't know. You know, before we, before we, we got to get them on this one. And we go, I'm going to let you know, we have a little series what we call cut, bench, start. So in like a football, we'd be like a Jerry Rice, a Terrell-Lotans, and a random malls. So it's not anything easy. So we gave you the hard as we possibly could get.

You got Dale Sr., Richard Petty, Jimmy Johnson. You got to start somebody. You got to bench somebody. You got to cut somebody. Yeah, you didn't make it easy. That's a good one. Man, I'm going to start Dale Senior. I'm going to bench Jimmy Johnson.

I'm going to cut Richard Petty. I know I'm going to get grief no matter what I say. But, yeah. absolutely are because all of got a all of got to all of got to sell you gave me the best guys that's yeah yeah that's my fit but rich but you know what richard had the best though those cars where he had the kudas and oh my can you imagine can you imagine if he like like some of those cars were to come up for auction richard paid the 43 the super bird oh man the barric the barric the baric the kudas and the barracudas can you imagine what they would be worth of millions millions of dollars

I mean, those, you know, back in that day in the 60s and 70s, there was so much innovation going on. Right. You know, there was no technology. It was just really smart people doing incredibly imaginative things. You know, and that just blows me away. You know, today it's all computers and technology and stuff. But back then, it was just guys and girls who just had huge imaginations that just tried stuff. And if it sucked, they threw it away.

and they'd go in a different direction. But like that level of just ingenuity to me in motorsports back then was just unbelievable. And the petties caught on before everyone else did. And that's why they were so successful. That Mopar. Yeah. Go ahead, Ocho. Outside of racing, obviously I know it takes up a lot of your life, just like all of us in general with our respective crafts.

It's a lot of sacrifice and a lot of time that has to be put in to be as good as you are. outside of that, you got to have passions. You have to be enthusiastic about something else that gives you a sense of, okay, now I can relax and do something to get away from the game. It's a sense of peace. For me, it's cigars and gaming. What's your outlet? Well, for the last nine months, it's been my son, you know.

That has been a world changer of world changers, you know. It's something that my wife and I have even grown closer. as our son has come in the world. No matter how shitty my weekend was, you come home and see your son smiling. He's just happier there, you know, and that changes your mood immediately. Other than that, I'm a big golfer.

I love to play golf. It's really peaceful to me. I know people get angry at golf, but I love the mentality of golf, like slowing it down, being really thoughtful, because it's just you. You know, and you're not playing against anybody else. It's just you and the shot that you can make.

So I've always enjoyed that. And we have a lot of animals. I like hanging around with our animals. We have dogs and chickens and llamas and goats. Okay. I just like watching, yeah, we got a little farm. And every animal is different. I like watching their different personalities.

Right. And I just sit down there in the morning with my coffee and just watch them because I think it's the funniest thing in the world. See, I told you, I told you. you, we, Joe and I, we talked about, like, we don't have a farm, but we talked about certain animals that we want, and Joe wants to get a capuchin monkey, and I want to get a hyena. Oh. Yeah.

I didn't expect that. That hyena took you for a loot, then. Yeah. I mean, you know, you can, you can domesticate a hyena, so I'm, I'm, I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't think. He didn't even, he know. Yeah, I don't think Steve Irwin ever told us that. I don't.

Yeah. Listen, it's a first time for everything, so I'm a tribe. All right. As soon as they get my license and my purse. Marlon Perkins was before your time in Wild Kingdom, but you can't domesticate no hyena. What type of dogs do you have? I have a Lab Shepherd. He's about 80 pounds.

And then my wife's dog, she adopted her. We don't really know what she is. She adopted her. My wife grew up in South Florida. And she was a rescue from Puerto Rico. So she's a Puerto Rican street dog. We don't really know what she is because she's just scrappy little thing. Right.

Yeah. but a hyena and a capuchin monkey that's uh you got to be careful with monkeys I knew some people who had they didn't have capuchins though they had I think they had chips no they had chips

and uh chimps are bad news they're they'll turn on you quick yeah that's what I heard yeah but a capuchin I think is small enough and I think they're they're kind enough where I think you'd be alright yeah yeah because you got to realize the chimpanzee

when you hear about the story where they don't ain't the woman's face and they gnawed their fingers off and things like that. Because you got to realize people start feeding them human food and they get bigger than what they actually would be from just eating. Now they will they'll kill animals in the wild. They'll eat

meat. You know, they're survivalists. But normally they're eating leaves and stuff like that. But you start feeding them protein and they get all of a sudden they're 100 and 50 pounds. So you think about how strong that animal is in the wild and you feed

him, you're not going to be able to handle him. I don't want anything. I'm more simple, Ryan. I want a raccoon. I want a highland. I want a highland like a cow or a pony or what those pygmy goats, something like that. He wants something simple. A raccoon.

I haven't heard nobody had no pet raccoon. I might need to move to Tennessee because they've made it real easy for you to be able to adopt raccoon. I might not have to pick up and move to Tennessee. What's up with you in the raccoon, though? I just want one, man. That just seems so fun.

Why can I have hyena? Haina seem fun. Oh, yeah? Yeah, he'll be laughing. He'll be tearing you up. No, I'm good. I don't want anything that can eat me. I don't want no part of that, Ryan.

That's why you got to have them from when they're a cub. You got to happen when they're a club It don't matter. Yeah. Right, let me ask you this. What is it that people get wrong about NASCAR? Because when you hear about athletes, you know, you talk about football players,

you talk about basketball, or you talk about all these sports that seems to be where you use it physical, you're running, you're jumping, and you're doing all this. What if they get wrong about being a NASCAR? Yeah, yeah, that's a big deflation that we have to deal with all the time, right? Yes.

We're not athletes and Stephen A's all over the board. talking to that we're not athletes and stuff like that and i think people get that thought because they drive cars every day drive cars to work drive cars they're like oh it's the same thing and it's it's just it's not right like the thing i love about racing is you are trying to find the edge of control without stepping over it you know and if you step over it they're going to crash and it's going to be a really big crash. So it's, it's all about feel and the physical side to it. You know, we're not the biggest guys. I'm a small guy. Most of us are pretty small guys. I think every sport has its own physical attributes that you have, whether it's basketball or football or

soccer. You know, in racing, it's a lot of endurance. You know, heck, we race yesterday in Iowa, and I lost, I lost eight pounds yesterday. I weigh 150 pounds. I don't have a lot of weight to lose. You didn't have eight pounds to lose, right? So it's a lot of, how is that? How do y'all lose so much weight? It's just hot.

So whatever the temperature is outside, add 35 to the cars. Oh, okay. So it's just hot in the cars. So it's normally. You hate Texas and Vegas and baseball? Yeah, they suck. Yeah. Those are, these summer races, they get, they get hot, man.

And so it's just a, a constant. So we do a lot of endurance training. Yeah. A lot of kind of core, shoulder strength. That's kind of what it takes. But yeah, I just, you know, and not a lot of people have done it ever because it's not as an accessible sport as other sports, you know, and I hate that. I wish it was more accessible to everybody to where you could go, even drive a go-car. Yeah, everything costs money. It costs money, right? It costs money around the road to run the car.

Yeah, you know, and I hate that because I wish that more people would have access to do it. because they could really get a feel for it. But yeah, I just think it's an unfortunate stigma that we have, but it's there. So. I mean, think about it. You mentioned you and Ocho was going, but you're going, you're going 170, 180, all up to there's 190 miles an hour. And before they got the restricted place, you're going over 200.

I remember the claim the cars literally take it off. Yeah. I remember those before they had those restricted plates and the down and the down and the back is that you but you're like this close you're like in rush hour traffic and you got 43 cars going on excess of 170 miles an hour and you're this close to the guy's boat and that's another step you know everyone asks you know if they're like is it hard to be a race car driver I was like well no you could drive my race car if you wanted to but the difficulties is 40 other guys being out there you know and trying to beat them and and race around them like so race craft racing around guys

is different than just going and making laps, you know. So that's where it comes in. You know, it's the same thing as shooting jumpers in the gym by yourself compared to if you got pressure on you. You know, it's a little bit different, you know, atmosphere. Yeah. What's your favorite track? I mean, growing up, I love when guys were the Daytona.

Obviously, you start your Super Bowl. Most people, the Super Bowl, their championship is at the end of the year. Your championship is at the beginning of the year, the Daytona. And I love Taladaica. And then all of a sudden, you know, you got the big tracks at Texas and you got ended. So what's your favorite track to run? So I grew up just south of Martinsville, Virginia. Little tiny track, right?

Little half mile racetrack. You know, Daytona is two and a half miles for people watching. Martinsville was a half mile. So super small. But I remember just watching races there as a kid, watching my dad race. Bristol's another great one, little half mile. Really, really fast. Cool racetrack.

It looks like a big football stadium. There's stands 360 degrees around. Martinsville has one of the coolest trophies that we have. It's an old grandfather clock. Yeah. So the trophies is a pretty cool thing in our sport you get if you win. So I'd say those two are probably my favorites, but nothing beats the Daytona 500.

I mean, it is the coolest event ever. Mm-hmm. I've been. And in Charlotte, Charlotte's the new one that came out, what, the last, what did you been running Charlotte for about 30 years now? Oh, gosh, yeah. probably more than that. Yeah, probably 30, 40 years.

Yeah. You know, I think that would be a good thing, too, is Daytona has been one of my areas when I meet someone new and I want to do something different that I know they've never done before. I've been to Daytona a few times, Charlotte Motor Speedway, and down and Homestead as well. Because that's that experience in itself for those who've never been to a NASCAR race, that's something that you have to put in your bucket list and go enjoy. And it is one of those things you can't explain. You have to go in the environment and get a better understanding for it to actually enjoy

and to see how awesome it is. Hey, Ryan, you think I'll fit in the car. I'm 6-8, bro. You think I'll fit in one of them cars? Yes, sir. We'll get you in one. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll have to have you out. We'll get you doing what Chad did. Yeah, yeah. I love to have you. Take him on that road course. Yeah, please. Hey, Ryan, the guy died puts the fiddle. six-s-a-goy-said guy because he's going to poop himself.

Will you get close to that wall? When you get up under the bank with that bank? Hey, that's what I try to do. When, you know, Chad came out, had a couple other guys yet. My whole goal for that day was to try to make somebody shit themselves. That was my goal. Hey, hey, hold up. But quiet as kept, though, Ryan, Ocho, he showed looks scared in that car.

Now, I ain't going to lie to you, boy, I see you whole no. Whoa, whoa, yeah. Hey, Joe, boy, you know how fast 170 is when you're not the one driving? I already know. I'm not, they're not being in control. You know what you feel like for people in the chat to give you a better example. If you ever on an airplane, right, and you hit a heavy turbulence, what's the first thing you do? Because you're not, you're not in control.

If I was driving, I'd be cool. Be different. The fact that I'm not, the first I'm leaning all the way over. I'm grabbing on to the rail the best way I can. Yeah. And when we were on the Oval, the big track, you were sitting right side on the right seat. You're a lot closer to that wall than I am. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're a lot closer. Hey, Ojo, what did you do? You close your eyes? No, no, no. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm screaming, Joe. I was screaming. Yeah, my eyes wide open, boy.

Matter of fact, what is like, Blil? No, I'm going to say, I had the opportunity to drive in Daytona. You know, in Daytona, Uncle Joe, you can drive on the track in a car, by yourself and you have someone in your ear. Now, they don't let you right away. They warm you up, you know, like a governor in a sense. They won't let you go over a certain mile an hour until you do a few laps. They allow you to go faster and faster. So I kind of did it a little bit, you know, but nothing to the speed in like what we went.

So I'm already a speed demon in a sense, but man, it's a different atmosphere of riding with a professional driver. Man. Well, see, I'm good because I wrote written in the Thunderbirds. And those planes be going, they go in 700 miles an hour. And they got you on your side. They got you on your back. Man, when did you do the Thunderbirds?

2006. 2006. I'm good. I got to do those guys my rookie year. So it was probably 10 years ago. That was the wildest experience. I have ever had my life. Boy, and look here.

I mean, I feel like I had played a game. I mean, you're exhausted. After they bring you down, all that G's, and you've got to be careful because you pass out upon taking off. You know, they rolling that plane? I was, oh, man. You know the worst part about it, the Thunderbirds was? Is you're dying, right?

You're struggling to stay awake. And these dudes are just talking to you the whole time while they're flying like normal. like we're having the conversation right now. They're like, all right, we're going to do this. And they're yanking all that. Yep, that's the exact difference. It made me feel so bad about myself. I'm like, man, stop talking.

Right. What's it been like, you know, Michael, K, Michael, Michael Jordan, obviously, probably the most recognizable sports figure in the world today outside of Mesa and Ronaldo. But to have him, that guy, what he was in basketball, to come to your sport,

and to bring that level of competition and to see what the 23 XAL and what they've been able to do, what has that meant for your sport? It's been huge that Michael has shown such an interest in racing and NASCAR. It's been an absolute pleasure to get to know him over the last handful of years.

He's an unbelievable human being. And he loves racing. He goes to a lot more races than people realize. He probably goes to two-thirds of the races. and just and knows everything. I've watched some like lower series races with them, trucks and Xfinity. And he knows every single driver.

He knows what the strategy is. He knows pit stops. He knows everything. It would shock you how much of a fan that he is. And so I just think it is, you know, as a competitor and I race against his team. But I love it. Like I fully appreciate what he does for the sport.

you know so it's it's a pleasure that we get to have him as an owner because i think he's doing nothing but good for a sport and like i said it's as a fan of his for a long time growing up with my dad being a fan of his it's like a dream come true just to get to know him and be able to talk to him and for him to know who i am come up to me and slap my butt and say good job like that means a lot man that's cool yeah yeah you're from ohio bingles or browns you know, it's, it's been a heartbreak, no matter who it is, the last few years. I say I'm more, I grew up closer to Cincinnati than I did. So yeah, Chad, I'm a, you know, I know, I watched, I was a fan.

I watched the Browns or Bengals when you were playing with them. So I, I'm more of a Bengals fan, and I live in Charlotte now, so I watch Bengals and Carolina. But, yeah, yeah. hopefully this year you know heck Panthers made the playoffs last year they actually look pretty decent I think I think Bryce is getting pretty good

and I'm just hoping that Burrough can stay healthy and we'll see we'll see where that goes yeah you've had some great races against Kyle Bush and unfortunately he passed away what do you remember most about Kyle yeah man just an unbelievable competitor I grew up admiring Kyle

and I grew up racing with him in lower ranks. He would come down and race local short tracks, you know, when I was super young. And I really got to watch him on Sundays and then sometimes race against him during the week. And I think Kyle is going to go down in the NASCAR history books is one of the best drivers the sport has ever seen. And I said this a while ago that there's nobody that would make you feel. feel less adequate as a competitor than Kyle Busch because he could do things that you just didn't think were possible. But you'd watch him do it. You're like, man, I can, I can do that. And you just could never do it. It's just a, it's such a talented human being and getting to know him personally.

It was a great guy. It was a great family man. You know, so I just feel for his wife and his children, you know, that he got taken away from them. And he will forever be a staple of our sport. So that's been a tough one for everybody, you know, the last few months since he's passed. And it just shows you that life is fickle and you never know what's going to happen next. But he was an amazing competitor. And honestly, for me, it was an absolute honor to share the track with him, you know, for the years that I got to because as someone I, like I said, admired growing up, that's all I wanted to do is race with those guys that, that I loved watching and was a fan of. And I got the privilege to do that.

Ryan, we're going to get you out of here, get you out of here on this. What's your best story of winning a race? What do you do after you win a race? Celebrate. You celebrate a lot, man. Yeah. Beer, wine. I'm a bourbon drinker.

Okay. I enjoy bourbon. My wife got me into wine. Maker's Mark Woodford. I'm a big. I like Woodford. I like Elijah Craig. I like Blanens.

I like Stagg's one of my favorites. Okay, yeah. If you want some high octane, stag's a way to go. I'm actually tonight, I don't want to plug anything on your show, but I'm drinking my bourbon tonight, 10 runner.

Okay, go ahead. Oh, okay. I didn't want you. So this is our bourbon. We just made it last year. So we're just starting out. But yeah, that's been my, it's been a fun project

because I'm a big bourbon guy and I wanted to get into the world. you know what i'm i'm in the spirits industry but it's and it's a it's a lot harder than people think people because of the three-term system they think you just produce it and you can take it to the stores it doesn't like it's not like that you got to find distributors and you got to go to do the uh the gsms and you got to hey you got to be you got to be all hands on deck what what spirit do you have i have a con yeah called shabella portier a b s a b s a tracin is it in the abc stores or where is it at? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we got, we're in North Carolina, but guess what?

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