S1: Episode 17: Salty Chase Elliott Fans

[00:00:05] Speaker A: This is raise rowdy racing with Caleb Conrady and Dawson Edwards. [00:00:13] Speaker B: Good morning, beautiful people. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Hey, we're back again. Another Monday in the south. [00:00:21] Speaker B: Another Monday. [00:00:21] Speaker A: I love it. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Monday morning coming down. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Monday morning. Running coming down. Damn, you must have drank a lot Sunday night. [00:00:29] Speaker B: I didn't. I didn't really. Just a few beers yesterday. [00:00:33] Speaker A: Heck yeah. Me too. I don't know what you were up to. We were kind of talking a little bit. You were off in BFE somewhere so I was trying to call you or text you stuff and it wasn't coming through. I don't know what the heck you were off doing. [00:00:48] Speaker B: Lindsay's church. Had a lunch in with some incredible food and it's in BFE, literally middle of nowhere. So we went to church and then went to that and then got done at around, I don't know, whenever I text, she's probably 132 o'clock, something like that. Yesterday was another all american day. Got to hang out, got to. NFL football is back, which I thoroughly loved. Your boys kicked major ass yesterday. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Sorry about your parlay, dog. [00:01:27] Speaker B: It was fine. It's so funny. If I was going to pick, if I would have guessed, I thought that parlay would have went the opposite way. I really thought the Giants were going to win that game and they looked like, good lord. They look like a Pop Warner team playing an NFL football team. I don't know what was going on with that. [00:01:44] Speaker A: That was awesome. So to give a little backstory, in the morning, Dawson texted me that he wanted me to put a bet down for him and I log on there and I look and see what it was and it was like the Falcons to win and then the Giants to beat the Cowboys. And if you don't know me, I am a Cowboys fan. I have the right to be, though, because I'm actually from North Texas, so screw all the haters. So when he texted me that, I said, man, really? The Giants? Come on. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:14] Speaker A: I think my exact words were, you're a bitch for that parlay. Those are my exact words. [00:02:20] Speaker B: You were going to be. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I was just like, damn, dude, that's harsh, but whatever. [00:02:27] Speaker B: The Cowboys were favorited to win, though. So I was like, I've done on my few football bets, I've made. Granted, I've only made like four, but I've took the underdog and I've won them all until that one. And they were only an underdog by plus one, like 46 or so. And so I really thought I was like, I thought there was like all this hype they've done sign this Daniel Jones to a big contract. I was like, dabal, he's member of the fat white boys club. So I was like, this is my dude here. And they just looked, I mean, terrible. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Yeah, they did. [00:03:08] Speaker B: I watched the whole game. Watched the whole entire game, man. [00:03:12] Speaker A: I logged on right in the second quarter. Just see how things were going because we were canning a bunch of stuff last night. We had a bunch of tomatoes and pickles that we were putting together. And anybody that's ever been through Canning, it was my first time doing this, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. But the one thing that nobody told me was how much freaking work canning stuff is. I mean, it's unbelievable how long of a process that took. [00:03:34] Speaker B: We were there from that nonstop by ourselves. [00:03:37] Speaker A: We were there from 03:00 in the afternoon till about 830 canning stuff. And it almost bled into 09:00 and I was just amazed. And you know what? We got like five jars of tomatoes and six jars of pickles done. And that took us 5 hours. But then again, like I said, it was our first time, so we're still learning how to do all this. So half of it was calling people, asking questions, reading instructions. So we were doing a lot. Plus we got a dog this week. I know I told you a little bit. [00:04:06] Speaker B: Can you pick it up and put it on the camera? [00:04:08] Speaker A: Too big. 60 pounds of her. I mean, she's right here, right next to me. Her name is Stella. She's a lab, but she's about 60 pounds. So I don't know if I could really pick her up. And she's kind of sleeping. But she's been great. She's been a great addition to the family. [00:04:21] Speaker B: And she chewed up anything? [00:04:24] Speaker A: No, not at all. We got her. She's five years old. She's totally housebroken already. Listens like hell. You can point to her water bowl and tell her to go get a drink when she's chewing for too long, and she'll just go do it. Smart dog. Good. Been. She's been great. But we had to go play with her every now and then. So, yeah, Cannon took about 5 hours yesterday. So we were watching the race the whole time while the cannon was going on. And Allison was pissed off because she's a true x fan. And that lasted all of five minutes. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Not even five minutes. Like a minute and 30 seconds, I think. [00:04:56] Speaker A: Yeah. But thank goodness her second guy was Reddick. So she ended up having a good day. [00:05:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I've been hanging out with rams all morning, but yesterday there's just nothing better, man. Woke up yesterday, it's like 62 degrees, the leaves are falling. It's like football is back. It's like the weather still getting to, like, 85 degrees during the day. But, man, nighttime and morning time just feel incredible. Me and Lindsay, we sit on the porch, like, pretty much every day. And yesterday sat on the. During. It was after the race and then during the afternoon games, because none of the afternoon games we could get were worth the damn. They were like the Steelers, and they're getting completely destroyed. So we sat on the porch and waited till what we thought was going to be a good football game with Dallas and the Giants, and we made some. The best hot dog in the world, dude, Sam's club. Those like, foot, not foot long. [00:06:01] Speaker A: They're like the ones they sell at the front. [00:06:04] Speaker B: Yes, but you can buy them. You can buy your own. [00:06:07] Speaker A: Oh, hell, yeah. [00:06:08] Speaker B: And take those, man, and put a little of the kinder's SPG, the blend on them. I mean, just kind of COVID them really, and get those big. They actually are a sandwich bun. It'd be a small sandwich, but they're a sandwich bun. And you get that for your bread, man. We got them, dude. And I'm just like, yeah, hot dog. You know, whatever. I'm kind of like you. I'll eat them. Not my favorite thing in the world, dude. These hot dogs are next level. They're next level hot dogs. If I had a race car, I'd want Sam's all beef, american hot dogs that are, like eight inches long to sponsor me. And I'd put eight inch long dog on the side of my car. [00:06:51] Speaker A: The hot dog machine. Yeah. Oscar Meyer shirt. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:01] Speaker B: Two of them. There's like twelve in a pack. And most folks, you can eat three or four hot dogs. They're a normal little hot dog. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Then you can eat like 67. [00:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah, not on that level. But if you get these, they're so big. Like one, maybe two, and you're like, okay, that's enough. That's how great these hot dogs. And they're, like, fulfilling. Yeah. I don't really know what got me on that, but we've had those hot dogs, like twice this weekend just because they're like that good. And I do them in the electric skillet. Not even the Blackstone. You do them on electric skillet throw. Like, when I say a little bit of oil, I mean the smallest amount of oil in the pan, and just lay the hot dogs down, cover them in the blend, and then you cook them for a pretty long time actually. Not even on very high. And I keep putting water in there. So it's like a steamed cooked on them. And they just rock. Boy, they rock. [00:08:03] Speaker A: Man, that sounds awesome. [00:08:04] Speaker B: Should I throw that out there? [00:08:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Now, we ended up having brats on Saturday for the xfinity race. After the race, did you do peppers and onions? Peppers, onions, jalapenos, cream cheese. And we got. You remember that place we did in Kentucky, that arena a couple of months ago? And they had jars of jelly out on the tables and catering, and one of them was a hot pepper jelly. Pepper jelly. Oh, it's spicy, man. So I got it, and I slathered that on. We actually ended up having to get hoagie buns because the tiny little grocery store next to us either has hot dog buns, which are just not enough, not enough, or they had, like, sub sandwich bread that was already sliced in half. So we just ended up making, like, brat sandwiches. [00:08:54] Speaker B: That's what I'm talking about. [00:08:55] Speaker A: Yeah. It ended up being good. And then yesterday, I ended up making that poor man's brisket in a way. We did the chuck roast with the Texas seasoning on it, and my Texas seasoning has, like, molasses and brown sugar and all sorts of stuff, so it makes a great outside bark on it. And it turned out pretty good. Kind of cooked it up kind of like a brisket, but you put it in a bath of broth instead of wrapping it up in foil. Ended up overdoing it a little bit because we got distracted with the canning and all. But still, it tasted pretty damn good. [00:09:29] Speaker B: Dog liked it. [00:09:30] Speaker A: She liked it. A never. [00:09:34] Speaker B: I don't have a smoker, but I never really even heard of a poor man's brisket until last Sunday. Like I was telling you on the phone, Lindsay's dad made one. And I mean literally, you could have told me it was a brisket. He cooked it the same way, wrapped it and everything. Same thing you did. The only difference was he wrapped his 2 hours ago or whatever and got it up to like two. Is it 210 or two? Three. I can't remember. [00:09:57] Speaker A: What the hell, 203 this one was. But then again, this is a lot less fatty. [00:10:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And it was incredible. You could have sold me that. That was brisket, and I'd have never known the difference. [00:10:11] Speaker A: Heck, yeah. When he gave it to you, did he tell you this is the best brisket you've ever put in your mouth? [00:10:15] Speaker B: He did not. [00:10:16] Speaker A: That's good. He doesn't need to start catering then. He's good. [00:10:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Good barbecue. [00:10:23] Speaker B: I didn't know where you were going with that, but, yeah, he didn't like that. Poor man's brisket blew. That dude's 13 hours, probably $150 brisket out of the water. I mean, absolutely blew it out of the water. [00:10:36] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:10:38] Speaker B: Well, damn. [00:10:38] Speaker A: I guess that's our rowdy race day meal segment right there. If you want to get some good cooking advice, you can come to us. It's kind of like our betting advice. We do it because we have fun doing it. And you know what? Sometimes we screw it up, and sometimes we nail it. We just never know. [00:10:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:52] Speaker A: So it's a lot of fun experimenting on the. You got the blackstone, I got the pellet smoker. We just experiment on that. [00:10:59] Speaker B: We're always wanting to get the other. Like, I want to get a pellet smoker, and Caleb wants to get a blackstone so we can make that. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Make the porch, man. [00:11:09] Speaker B: Imagine. Yeah. So, this house, when we bought it, it came with the furniture on the know, like, it already had people left their stuff or whatever. And we don't really hang out on the back porch much, but this house has a very large front porch and, like, a pretty good sized back porch, but we always hang on the front porch. So I kind of want to move the furniture that's out there, maybe put that somewhere else, and that way we can just put the in an l shape, have the Blackstone here, have the smoker here. I could just be working. I would have the set up. [00:11:47] Speaker A: Heck, yeah. That sounds awesome, man. And you just need to get a tv out there so you can watch the race on Sundays while you cook. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Me and Lindsay actually talked about that yesterday, putting some sort of tv set up for outside. So that'd be pretty cool. [00:12:02] Speaker A: That'd be awesome, man. I'm jealous. It sounds like a good setup, but, shit, it is. Way to do it. And, hell, anyway, now that we've talked about all the meals we've eaten, the fat white boy club has officially disbanded for the afternoon. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I started the club. Yeah. I think that was either last year or the year before last. Maybe I was even living with Maxwell, but Andy Reed's the president of the fat white boy club, so it's any fat white boy. That's, like, very where. That's where it starts. So. Not that me and Caleb are very successful, but we like to think we are. We're honorary members of the fat white Boy club. [00:12:44] Speaker A: I'm working on the fat, and we're both working on the. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Reed, you know, they ask him, like, how did you celebrate winning the Super bowl? He's like, man, me and my wife went to our favorite cheeseburger place, had me a diet Coke, and I went to sleep or something like that. And it's just like, hell yeah. Andy Reed. [00:13:05] Speaker A: God dang. Oh, man. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Anyways, race time, baby. Tyler Reddick coming out there and not. [00:13:11] Speaker A: A member of the fat white boy club. His white is not fat. [00:13:15] Speaker B: He is a small, small boy. Bigger than a squirrel, but very small and redheaded. [00:13:24] Speaker A: Probably the reason he won the race yesterday. His car wasn't overweight. [00:13:28] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, what a great race. We 100%. I love this, love this, love this. I wish we could, and I guess we could do this, but take clips from the previous week and play them on here or put them out of things that we said that actually happened during the race that we said a week prior that was going to happen for real. I absolutely love when stuff like that goes down. [00:13:55] Speaker A: I mean, you're right, man. We hit, a few of our predictions were damn straight. I mean, we had talked about how toyotas were going to be fast. 20, 311 was probably going to have a great day. And until Bubba blew that right rear, they had a chance of finishing 1213, something like that, because he was running fast all day. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:13] Speaker A: Joe Gibbs was up there at front with Hamlin Truex, and Truex and Bell qualified well. Their race was kind of. But other than Truex's race was brutal. Race didn't even really happen. Yeah, but, I mean, it was exactly what we were talking about. RFK was going to come up there and have a good day and be fast. I mean, I think they're only missing a little bit of raw speed to catch up with those other guys. But other than that, I mean, it was exactly what we had talked about happening, and it was really fun to watch it all go. [00:14:44] Speaker B: It's cool. It's just cool to see that when we say something. And then it happened, and then just Kansas being a badass racetrack just went from being not great. Nobody really caring about Kansas to one of the best races on the schedule. And we talked about that last week, but it just does, like, the whole race, the strategies, the natural cautions, the grooves. Another one of those things just, like, checks all the boxes. I kind of going to go back to what I said last week about Darlington. You're not going to just back into a win at Kansas. You got to be able to run good all day and be up there. It's just that kind of racetrack. And reddick hung around there all day and then made the most of that last caution, man, and it was awesome. 45 cars won there three of the last four times with three different drivers, which just blows my mind. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that is a wild stat. I mean, that team goes to Kansas with their mindset on winning. There's nothing else that they can do because every time they're going there, and the one time that the 45 didn't win it, it was the 23. His teammate winning it. So it's kind of funny that that's the way that this racetrack has been. 20 311 has dominated Kansas the last four times we've gone there. And it's hilarious to watch it just happen over and over and over again with both of their drivers, too, which is even more impressive because Reddick outruns Wallace on a daily basis until you get to Kansas, and all of a sudden, they're both up there in the. So that's. It's just impressive. I don't know what the hell they figured out at Kansas, but they just have it dialed in in a way that nobody else can really compete with. Even Joe Gibbs being a major alliance member with them and Hendrik running good as well. I mean, it's kind of funny to see them all running up front, but 20 311 is just leading the charge at all times. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it's definitely got it figured out. And you got. I mean, the last four races there, you've had all Toyota wins and having Kurt and Bubba and Reddick, it's just while they were all in the 45 to get, like, to make that, I just don't think. Has that ever happened? Probably never. That a car has won three times in four races with three different drivers in the same car. I would probably say no, that that has not. [00:17:02] Speaker A: That's a stat. Somebody would have to sit there and research to look up, because that would take a lot of doing to figure out, but, yeah, man, that would be cool to know. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think. Not that I can think of. Off the top of my head. Not that I can think of. Top of my head. What was Reddick sponsor yesterday? Moneyline, I think it was the teal. [00:17:23] Speaker A: Moneyline machine, I believe. [00:17:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So they've also won it, the ₩45. It the first time in the Jordan brand car, and then Bubble won it last year in the root insurance blue 45 car, and then Reddick won it this year in the moneyline car. So they've won it. Three different sponsors, three different paint schemes, three different drivers. Like, three different. [00:17:42] Speaker A: All of them some shade of blue or teal? Yeah. [00:17:46] Speaker B: And I assume same crew chief that's been there. I don't know that, but, yeah, that. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Would be something to look up. Honestly, the fact that you remember the sponsors is pretty wild, but there were. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Just, like, three major wins with, like, Kurt's first win. It was Kurt's first win with 20. 311 ended up being Kurt's final win of his career. Bubba's first ever real win in a race. So that was like. That's memorable. And then, obviously, yesterday, I didn't drink enough beer to forget that, so it's. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Hard to forget that. That. And then the move that he made at the end to actually get the win was also crazy with Logano and Jones out there with two tire stops, both of them picking up tons of spots. Jones running like, I've not seen Jones or any of the legacy cars, specifically the 43. Even back before legacy was a thing. You haven't seen them run like that at a mile and a half in forever. [00:18:38] Speaker B: He said it's the most speed that they've had all year. He said that in his first race interview. Yeah, he felt it, obviously. [00:18:45] Speaker A: And seeing them battling off of four going into that last lap, and they're just beating and banging off the corner, and all of a sudden, Reddick just comes down there and swoop de woos right down all the way from the wall to the white line, down next to the grass. I mean, yeah, crazy move. It was tons of fun to watch. Allison was freaking out. I was freaking out. He gets up there into the lead and just sails it off to a good victory. And I'm impressed as all get out with the fact that it happened that way. And then Hamlin's down there running him down. Mailman. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Oh, no. Neighbor. Going down the road. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Neighbor. [00:19:21] Speaker B: He's got an old 80s model truck that's got some exhaust or no exhaust on it, and it's semi loud. And I was like, the males already ran, so I was like, what in the world is she aggressively barking like that loud for? She's like, oh, God, is somebody, like, here or something? Yeah, but I'm sorry. That's why I was looking around, and then I just saw him pull out and go down the road here. [00:19:47] Speaker A: Stella's down here. She's having some kind of dream because she was just down there yammering a little bit in her sleep, so I was kind of cracking up about that. But, yeah, seeing that wild move come around for Reddick and then Hamlin coming up right behind them, trying to make the best of it. Honestly, the only reason Hamlin didn't have more to say about the end of that race was because he had such a terrible restart. I don't know, let's talk what was going on with him, but it's like he slammed on the brakes or he shifted down instead of shifting up. [00:20:15] Speaker B: That man is so concerned with nothing ever being his fault that he went as far as to say the reason he didn't get a good restart was because the car behind him, Larson, was running behind him. It's like I've never, in the history of my whole 27 years of watching racing, I've never heard anyone blame the guy behind them as to why they didn't get a good restart. [00:20:41] Speaker A: What did he say? [00:20:42] Speaker B: He. [00:20:42] Speaker A: Did he say he hit him in the rear end and lifted his tire? [00:20:44] Speaker B: No, he said the five was lagging back. So he was trying to lag back with the five or lay back. Not lag back, but lay back. And that's what he said in his post race interview. And I was like, oh, my God, you got to be kidding. Like, get up there and go, don't blame it on the guy behind you. He's so focused about being right, he's got to even argue about Tupperware on his podcast. It's like, dude, it's okay. You don't have to always be right, I promise. [00:21:11] Speaker A: No, he always has to be right. It's his. I mean, I had him pick to win the race. I thought he was going to pull it off. He ended up one spot, so I knew he was going to be running up there. [00:21:23] Speaker B: I had him pick top three just because. Just because Denny does do little. Some races I do pick him to win, but I never get those races. He just gets a little too excited sometimes or does something stupid like that, and I'm like, it's hard for me to put money behind that. Reddick also does the same thing. And I was going to bring up like they finally put a race together. I think Reddick, no joke, if they would capitalized on a few races this year that they have made mistakes on. And Reddick even had the same kind of situation last year when he was in the eight car. Not necessarily that were like team faults, whatever, but I want to say there was three races last year that he led the most laps in that I read that he blew tires and had malfunctions on the car. So not necessarily blown tires this year, but like tire falling off or pit road speed and penalty, because both of those happen back to back weeks, literally. Back to back and then slow pit stop or just anything like that. He has an opportunity this year to have. He's already gotten two wins. He could, no joke, have like five to six wins on the year if they could have just capitalized on all the races that they royally screwed up. [00:22:44] Speaker A: And I'll give them credit for even thinking about that because you could hear Steve Latarte talking about it yesterday on the broadcast about how they're trying to put together the races and understand that just because you're finishing in the top three does not mean it's a disappointing day. I mean, as much as you want that win, they were talking about how, man, you're running in second and you're 3 seconds behind the leader. Don't outrun the pace of your own car trying to catch somebody and then end up finishing in the 20s because you hit the wall. And we had to come down pit road, take that second place because you're in the playoffs. There's a bigger picture here. You're second place in the playoffs. Now with that win, who knows where you would have been just off of points if that hadn't happened. But at the end of the day, make sure that you finish these races and you're doing everything you can. And he was talking about how in practice, instead of ripping the wall over and over again, he's like, I know I'm good at that. Let me go down and try to find speed in other spots of the racetrack. So that way, when it does come down to the end, if I need it, I know where to go. And all those things just kind of pieced together just like you talked about a win that almost was a second place that just turned into a good finish because of the fact that he took care of his car. And when it really mattered, he still had a piece that could get around two other fast cars racing in front of him and outrun the guy who was just outrunning him by two and a half seconds for the last 30 laps. [00:24:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I haven't read this anywhere. This is just my own theory about Tyler Reddick. I think Tyler Reddick is on just pure talent. One of the top, I'm going to say top four to five drivers in the league, that he is off just raw speed and talent. He's like a top five driver. And Tyler Reddick ain't in one place very long. I mean, he was at Gnassey for a year. He goes to JGR or Joe damn. Junior Motorsports. Wins a championship the next year, goes to the 21 or whatever car he was in with two car with Richard Childers, only there for a year. Boom, goes to cup, runs that for a couple of years gets a win. Boom, goes to Toyota, 20 311 with someone else. It's like when Reddick finally, which where he's at now is where he's going to stay for a while when he can get some chemistry built with his team and stay somewhere for a minute. They are going to be dangerous. They are going to be dangerous for a long time when they get it all figured out. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Getting two championships back to back in Xfinity is impressive. Getting two different teams back to back with two different teams in Xfinity is unheard of. So it's impossible to look at that guy and think to yourself he's not a major piece of the reason why a team has success in the same way. Like a Kurt bush, he bounces around to different teams but always finds success at each of them. I could totally see Reddick going out here and getting a championship in the next five, six years. It's hard to predict when that's going to happen. But, man, he's got a good thing going and right now, 20 311 is strong, very strong team and I don't see that going away necessarily. They've got such a good thing going on. They just resigned all their deals. Everybody's happy with the situation. I just see it going up from here. Other teams may have good ears, but I think 20 311 will be a solid contender for a long time and a lot of it has to do with Tyler Reddick. [00:26:12] Speaker B: I agree with that. And then I think this is bouncing straight to another topic. But Eric Jones is also another guy that I think is very raw, talented and getting him back with Toyota, having Jimmy Johnson as a mentor and getting to work with back in the same stable as a Tyler Reddick. You know, Bell those guys, they can true x, they can bounce all this information off of each other and be a top component to Toyota in the cup series. Watch out for Eric Jones. I'm not saying he's going to go out there and win a championship, by no means. But I do think he will be a playoff top ten, top twelve driver next season. Damn. [00:26:57] Speaker A: I'm going to write that down and I'm going to watch and see what the round of twelve looks like in a year from now. That would be wild to see it. It'd be a huge turnaround for that organization to go from missing the playoffs completely with not even really much of a chance for it this year to around. I mean, that's a huge jump, but if anybody's going to make it happen. Richard Petty, Jimmy Johnson and Toyota all partnered together with Eric Jones. As much as Toyota loves good, that's a good combination of about. And they had a great finish yesterday. Almost damn near won the race. If they could have somehow managed to block for the lead instead of fighting with it's. Something could have happened there. It was wild to watch. I mean, he still ended up getting third. So great day for legacy. Just out of nowhere, third place finish. I never would have seen that loved. [00:27:48] Speaker B: I'd have loved to know what the ods for Jones were to get a top five yesterday. I'm sure they were crazy ods, much. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Less a top three. That's even wilder. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that have been a cool. That was cool. I really enjoyed seeing that. And it's always cool to see the 43 run up front no matter what. [00:28:07] Speaker A: Heck yeah, it is. Absolutely. [00:28:10] Speaker B: We talked about this last week. Another one of those things that we nailed said that the six and 17 would run ten to twelve spots better than what they ran last year. By God, if they didn't, I know the 17 had an issue there, but before that, man, RFK, dude. They came out there and ran top ten. Kez ran top five, top three all day long, won a stage. We're the biggest RFK supporters. So let's go RFK. That was awesome to see. I'm glad we called that. We literally called that on this podcast last week. I thought that was cool. [00:28:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it was another great day for them. I mean, getting a stage win is huge for anybody, especially when you're in the playoffs. That just one adds ten points plus a playoff point for the next round. It just helps you out a ton. So he got that. And Chris Busher did run well. I mean, I hate it for him the way that it ended. He's been on a hot streak for so long and it was looking like nothing but continuing it just tire woes at Kansas. It's kind of a big thing nowadays. [00:29:15] Speaker B: He has finished in the top 20 every single race since Bristol dirt. That's how long it's been since he's finished outside the top 20. He had the longest in the series. [00:29:25] Speaker A: Yeah. And you want to know why? Still sitting in 9th place after a terrible finish like that with plus 13 to the cut line. That's the reason why all those points and everything he's been adding up and the consistency he's been finding with his team and finishing well every single time, that's how you do mean, I know those stage points don't necessarily mean Jack Diddley once it comes around to the playoffs, but it's that chemistry with your team that you're earning, too that's really helping out well. [00:29:53] Speaker B: And it also goes to show you yesterday or last week we talked about, I mean, you have Reddick or no, you have Kezelowski and Harvick, your two guys that pointed their way in. If you look at the standings right now by having that freaking incredible day, you have Kezelowski plus 33. And another thing that we called last week, Harvick is going to run top ten all day, which he did end up finishing 11th. But if running that top ten, that gets Harvick above the cut line and he's right there at plus seven. But that's the difference between running that average top ten day that gets you there to running that top four, top five, stage win top day. That's that plus 33. And it's just so intriguing to me to have two guys that kind of came in on the same wave to just look at. Obviously, we know RFK is running way better than ShR, but you can really compare those two guys right now as yesterday, specifically of what an average top ten day and an average top three running up that close to the front day. It'll do for you, man. [00:30:57] Speaker A: It's true. It really is. I mean, the playoff situation is so much fun to watch and especially when you're analyzing it as deeply as we try to. It's really fun to see how it all shakes out for everybody. With your guys like William Byron and Martin Truex, they've been falling in the playoff rankings, but Willie B. Has had much more consistency than Truex has. So instead of being one two, now they're four and 13. And it's crazy to just see that different trajectory with your favorites to make it to the final four. One of them has already fallen so far in two races. He's below the cut line. Now. [00:31:34] Speaker B: I guarantee you there's not one person that's followed along with the points would have said that would have put the 19 below. Going into Bristol at any point in. [00:31:47] Speaker A: The playoffs going to be tough. Thinking of him as like in an elimination spot before the round of eight would have been a hard sell for me. [00:31:55] Speaker B: Well, the proofs in the pudding of this statement. We brought this statement up like the winner of the playoffs. The regular season usually is almost a lock for the top final four. The only thing that was different this year, though, normally that guy that's in first has those freaking nine 8710 wins in a season. We brought it up that, yes, we didn't have that guy this year. We had two guys that were kind of close with Willie B and the 19. But, man, I still thought, like, those guys were a lock, man. Two terrible rests in a row will just do it for you anyway. But this is the first year. I've always kept up with the points, obviously, but maybe it was because of this podcast, I don't know. But this year I've taken like a screenshot on my phone every time they post it. Compare what they were last week to what they were this week. So I've just been more in depth and infatuated with the points. And we talked about seeing them, how they're running during the race and all that. It's just like to see true x. Like when that wreck happened, I think he was like plus two. And then each stage goes by, he just starts falling, falling, falling, and then he gets you to minus seven. [00:33:16] Speaker A: It's scary when you're that team now you're on the outside looking in, thinking to yourself, what the hell? An 18th place finish at Darlington, a last place finish at Kansas, and now you're looking at having to score. Yeah. And you're looking at having to score stage points and finish strong in the last race. Which do I think he's capable of? Absolutely. At Bristol, I think he can go out there and have a little bit of success, but we have to remember that Truex and short tracks have had a very storied past. [00:33:48] Speaker B: I was going to bring seeing him. [00:33:49] Speaker A: Go here and it's a tough race and it's going to be easy to get caught up in somebody else's crap. If he has another finish like that, he's out. I feel like he's going to have to go out there and run top ten all day long to secure his spot in. He's now looking at being a point guy when earlier he was thinking, I can do whatever I want and try to get a win. [00:34:10] Speaker B: There's two things to what I'm going to say. The 19 team and crew and driver is a guy that you can see go out. They can win any given Sunday. They're one of those any given Sunday kind of teams. So, yes. Can they go out there and win Bristol? I 100% think they can. But when I think about Bristol, Truex is not one of those drivers that pop up in my mind even in the last couple of years. I even think as bad as shr and Harvick have ran. Even though he runs like we talk about average top ten. He runs up front at Bristol. Bristol is one of those tracks where he can run up front at Busher. They won that race last year. I think Kezlowski has a big chance. They have so much speed. I think he has a big chance to win at Bristol. This know. I don't know, man. I don't know. And there's obviously wrecks and stuff can change everything. I mean, just on straight pace. Coming back from seven points at Bristol, I'm just looking at the points, I don't see anybody that's just like, man, they're going to run terrible. I really don't. That's in front of him. [00:35:19] Speaker A: It's true. [00:35:22] Speaker B: Unless just something major changes, I don't know. Logano salvaging a top five yesterday was great for them because they have just been cold as ice. I don't know what's been up with the 22, but they've kind of been on that number one train with the one car. I agree. And then pulling a finish out. So I just don't know. With Bristol, we'll have to see. It's going to be really fun. I just want to have my eyes on Truex, like, the whole race, honestly, just to see the points, like, as he's running and who he is out running that's in front of him. Yeah. [00:35:56] Speaker A: I mean, it's going to be like watching someone who's only ever driven out in the middle of the country with no traffic suddenly get into Dallas Fort Worth and try to drive a car down the freeway and figure out how to get from a to b, because the entire time they're doing it, I guarantee you they're just scared as hell looking at everyone around them, waiting on somebody to wreck them. And I feel like that's going to be true. X all day long at Bristol, driving scared, driving with his elbows up a little bit, but knowing that he cannot get himself in a bad situation. I think Truex's biggest goal at Bristol is to finish the race in a minimum of 10th place. [00:36:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I think, you know, to be. [00:36:39] Speaker A: There for every single stage, too, both stages, and get to the end of the race, that needs to be your goal, because looking at it, I mean, it's Bristol. Something's going to happen to a playoff driver. There's 16 of them. It's inevitable. But the idea that somebody is going to go out there and have such a terrible day that they're going to fall down below him while that still is an option. It's going to have to be Harvick, Logano, Bell or Busher. I don't see anybody else that's going to go out there and have as rough a day. [00:37:12] Speaker B: That's going to, like I just said, I don't see Busher having a bad. [00:37:16] Speaker A: So I don't just. It's scary for them. Just talk about a terrible opening to the playoffs. We've been preparing for this all year. What's going on now? All of a sudden we're going to have two bad races that started off for your leader going in. [00:37:31] Speaker B: Did you see the picture that James Small posted? The hole that was in that tire was like the size of this right here. Like a pinhole just by. Oh, it was so small. And that's what he. James small, which I love James small and his don't give a fuck attitude. He was like, fuck my life. And that's what he posted with the tire and that's what it was. That's not even a good year. Like they ran over something. Something happened. That's what it was. And that's racing. That is what it is. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Bad luck, man. That is bad luck at its finest. [00:38:08] Speaker B: It really is. [00:38:10] Speaker A: But either way, I agree with you. It's going to be a scary situation for them. They are going to need some points and they really are talking about another guy who had a big issue yesterday. That's a playoff driver is Buba Wallace coming out there and running top three. [00:38:29] Speaker B: As the money down on Buba to run top three. And he did. [00:38:34] Speaker A: I did, too. Me and you both, man. I knew he was going to do something good here. And he goes out and he proves he's good at Kansas. He's got a good car for Kansas. And blows a right rear and knocks himself to negative 19 to the playoff line. I mean, it ain't a must win, but damn, dude, you might as well tell yourself you need to win two stages, win a stage and finish in the top five at Bristol in order to advance and hope for some woes for other drivers. [00:39:03] Speaker B: When you have to point your way in the way these playoffs work, being the number one seed coming in two races, that only gets you minus seven, which minus seven sucks. When you have so many points in your back pocket you can afford one bad race. When you're a guy that pointed your way in, you can't. You see it? That's exactly what happens. You got to run top ten, which is like what I just said with Harvick to be in that plus, even running top ten, you're still going to be a low in the low pluses, single digits. So I know that they're just pissed off at that because that was their chance to win. If not win, run top three. So it's demoralizing. That would just suck. That would suck. But another just racing deal. [00:39:57] Speaker A: It is what it is, but it really is, man. [00:40:00] Speaker B: No backup plan when you point your way in for real. [00:40:04] Speaker A: And looking at his finishes at Bristol for Bubba Wallace, it doesn't look good, man. [00:40:10] Speaker B: What does the next gen look like? [00:40:12] Speaker A: Next gen race car with 20 311 14th and 20 eigth. That's on a bristol asphalt. And he started in 29th and started 16th. [00:40:25] Speaker B: So we're talking Bubba, not Mr. Short track. [00:40:29] Speaker A: Not Mr. Short track. I think Bubba is going to be somebody that you fade hard at Bristol and don't expect much, which is a horrible thing to say about somebody that is looking 19 points outside the cut line. I don't know, man. I just don't see it. And I think Kansas blowing a right rear was the nail in the coffin for bubble Wallace in the playoffs. Hey, I don't think we matter for him. [00:40:54] Speaker B: I love that you said that again because you said the same thing last week about the 34. You should have your nail in the coffin section of the week for each playoff driver. [00:41:05] Speaker A: That's funny. [00:41:05] Speaker B: And I didn't think about that until now. You just said it. But Caleb's nailing the coffin. [00:41:14] Speaker A: Winning. You're in. You nail in the coffin and you're. Yeah, that's. [00:41:17] Speaker B: That's exactly what it should be. Caleb's nail in the coffin hour. [00:41:21] Speaker A: I'll give my nail in the coffin to bubble Wallace for blowing that. Whatever. That nail fell out of the coffin and went into his right rear and that's what caused his. [00:41:31] Speaker B: I think you can hit yourself with two nails for a nail for each driver this week since you have to have four. Got to go. So you had the 34 last week, the 24. I think your other nail in the coffin is going to be the 47 for having his awful day he had yesterday. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Yeah, he's out. Really did, man. He hit his Ricky spin house moment. I mean, I hate to call the guy out. He's a cool dude. I really like him as a person and I don't have anything against the guy, but we called it from the very beginning of the playoffs that he was going to be one of the guys getting out in the first. [00:42:08] Speaker B: He was one of our. On our list, which our list is right as of right now. We got three of the four no one had. [00:42:14] Speaker A: Three were correct. I mean, how can you predict that we're looking at Christopher Bell or Ross Chastain to get knocked out? And Christopher Bell, dude, that's the guy that I kind of wanted to bring up. [00:42:26] Speaker B: Bring him up. [00:42:28] Speaker A: I'm bringing him up because he starts on the poll. He starts on the poll. I got some good stats about teammates. He's got teammates running top three. He's got alliance partners running top three, and he's got a car that has proven it, has the speed, and he goes out there, and he leads ten laps and gets passed by Larson, and nothing ever again happens. This is the reason I never place a bet on Christopher Bell, to win or never, because he will always start top row. He's like a Ryan Newman back in the day, where he will go out and set the pole, which is awesome. The thing is, when Ryan Newman got back out there, he became really fucking hard to pass. So he'd run up front because you couldn't get around the dude. Christopher Bell runs up front until you start knocking on his door, and it's like he freaks out. I mean, you got Darlington, where he's hitting the wall over and over again, and now all of a sudden, you've got Kansas, where he goes out there and he finishes 8th in a race that he should not have finished outside of the top five. And I can't wait to hear your stats, because Christopher Bell in the playoffs should be last year. Christopher Bell, what are they doing right now? They give him qualifying speed, but he can't race to save his life, and it feels like he's running away. [00:43:46] Speaker B: Had no clue that you were going to bring Christopher Bell up, but Christopher Bell. You know who has the most polls over the last two seasons? [00:43:54] Speaker A: Christopher Bell. [00:43:56] Speaker B: Do you know? Not counting this season. I'll give you that stat in a minute. Christopher Bell's average finish before this season of winning the poll. [00:44:08] Speaker A: If he won the poll, where did he. Where did he finish? Average. Yeah, he finished. Average? 17th. [00:44:12] Speaker B: Average. 17th. He's got, I think, four polls this year. Can't see my hand. Sorry. Four polls this year. Guess what his average finish is. [00:44:21] Speaker A: 17Th. [00:44:23] Speaker B: 21St. Whoo. [00:44:25] Speaker A: It's getting worse, dude. [00:44:26] Speaker B: If he runs on the pole, if he gets the poll, it's almost like bet opposite. Don't bet Bell, because the proof is literally in the pudding. If he gets on the pole, he runs awful. And I don't know what has happened to Christopher Bell, but since they made him and someone has these stats, too, now, I know I'm Mr. I love dirt track racing and whatever, but Christopher Bell's career, when he was allowed to dirt track race, was doing this. Christopher Bell's career in average finish since they made him quit doing this. [00:45:05] Speaker A: It's true. [00:45:06] Speaker B: There's some sort of correlation there. [00:45:08] Speaker A: There is. Larson is still able to go out there and race all he wants to, and he's still out there. I mean, he almost, and those two. [00:45:14] Speaker B: Used to race each other every single race. They'd race each other four times a week, counting the cup series. And that sharpened his blade. Iron sharpens iron. It really does talk about. [00:45:33] Speaker A: Just a really cool thing to even talk about. I didn't even think about him not dirt track racing anymore. And he's going out here and. Yeah, because he's not allowed to. [00:45:40] Speaker B: He's not allowed to. [00:45:41] Speaker A: He's the weak link at. I mean, Ty Gibbs is learning. He's a rookie, so I'm going to eliminate him from this running. But if you look at Denny ham, when Martin Shurex Jr. And Christopher Bell, I know Martin's lower than him in the playoff standings. That's because of two bad races. Christopher Bell, I had him eliminated in the first round. That's how much faith I've gotten him to be able to pull it off. And he's still only sitting plus 13 in 10th place. He's still two spots away from me being right. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I could see him not running good. I mean, I'll be honest, him having the Bristol win this year, that don't matter. With being on dirt, that don't matter. [00:46:18] Speaker A: Doesn't matter at all. [00:46:19] Speaker B: So with him having the Bristol win, does that even without the dirt race, is he even in the playoffs this year? I don't know. I don't know where regular season points. [00:46:30] Speaker A: Was, but right now he's sitting in 10th. But that's because of the inflated amount of points. I'd wonder what he would have ended up with without it. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm not sitting here to be Mr. Christopher Bell hater. Just funny. Like I said, you brought him up. I had those stats, and it's interesting to see he's one of those guys. Just like Larson wants to run dirt. Kyle Bush said he was a better race car driver before they made the rule where you can only run. Cup drivers can only run five races in Bush and xfinity and truck series. [00:47:05] Speaker A: They made that rule for him. [00:47:07] Speaker B: For him and those guys, man, they are. I mean, Kyle Bush is one of the greatest of all time, and he's still craving seat time. And all we've done to race car drivers is kind of cut their nuts off a little bit, because you only let them practice 30 minutes super speedways. You don't let them practice at all. What are they supposed to do? How are they supposed to get seat time? You got Joe Gibbs not letting his guys run this. You got NASCAR only letting them run five races. Am I saying they need to run every single weekend? No. I've seen how that turns out. And it's Cup Series junior, so, no, I'm not saying that. But they're race car drivers, man. They want to race. [00:47:44] Speaker A: Let them race. [00:47:45] Speaker B: They do something. I don't know. [00:47:47] Speaker A: Willie B. [00:47:48] Speaker B: And Chase Elliott and all these guys, they're going down. They're not dirt track racers. They're late model guys, so they're going down. They've been running late model races all year. William Byron's been winning late model races this year. They're race car drivers. They want to race. That's all I got to say. They want to race. And these guys that are dirt track racers. Yeah, it's dangerous. But, I mean, what form of racing isn't dangerous? [00:48:13] Speaker A: It's true. It really is. [00:48:17] Speaker B: They need to race. Iron sharpens. [00:48:19] Speaker A: They really do. And I'm with you. I hate that they're allowing all those contract negotiations to end up in. You're not allowed to race anymore. And this is the rule I'm setting for you. And it's really going to be up to the drivers themselves to say, I don't care. I'm not signing this contract if you're not going to let me race. Problem is, there's a lot of money on the line, and if you say no, you can't guarantee it's such a hard position to be in as a driver. You do want to go out there and do more, but you can't. And it is tough, and it turns into inconsistency. And all of a sudden, your stock's going down because you can't figure out how to hold on to your edge and not race all that often. I mean, it's tough. It's part of the game. And unfortunately, Bell's the guy that's kind of taking the hit for it. But if you put Bell on a different team, could he run faster and go out there and practice dirt track racing and do whatever he wants to do? Would he run faster? I think you make a good point to say, yeah, you can't guarantee it, but, man, it would be cool to see him running better. I think he had just as much, maybe not just as much hype as Kyle Larson coming into the cup series, but he had similar amounts of hype. [00:49:33] Speaker B: He had a lot because of the. [00:49:34] Speaker A: Fact that he had such a good dirt track history and his truck and those cars are. [00:49:42] Speaker B: And his stats in the bush and trucks are immaculate. It's like anything, whether it be a musician or a race car driver or a ditch digger, you can't get better at something if you're not doing it. I don't know. They don't let them practice. It's the weirdest thing to me. [00:50:07] Speaker A: They don't even let them shake the. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Cars down at super speedways. It's the wildest thing. [00:50:11] Speaker A: Not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of that at all either. They're always talking about cutting costs and it's like, damn, dude, maybe you just need to make more money. [00:50:21] Speaker B: Denny Hamlin says that some of these cutting cost is what it's coming of, having shittier racing. That Denny Hamlin says that like, okay, are we going to cut costs or cut cost or do we need to put a better product on the track? And he says that some of the cutting cost makes for Shittier. So I agree. I don't know. [00:50:44] Speaker A: Either way, I love the tangent. We needed to have it. Sometimes stuff just has to be said. [00:50:52] Speaker B: We've went through, hit on most of these guys right here. True. Let's talk about Blaney. [00:50:57] Speaker A: We have him on here. I don't think we've talked about Larson or Blaney, our two guys. Your guy definitely had a better day than mine, Blaney. I put him in our middle of the road category. He didn't do anything. He didn't do final four stuff yesterday, but he didn't do eliminated in the round of 16 stuff like Truex did, just kind of mid. We kind of have this section in our notes for the guys that did stuff to get them eliminated in the round of twelve or eight. And Blaney was one of them. He finished top five in both stages, running phenomenal. I mean, up there in third, 4th, 5th, making moves. Then he throws a temper tantrum on the radio about losing spots on pit road, which is frustrating. Don't get me wrong. He was pissed. And as soon as that happened, it just started kind of coming down for him. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it did. [00:51:53] Speaker A: I will be the first to admit his pit crew let him down yesterday. How many times did he pit in the top five and end up outside the top ten after the pit cycle was done? It happened at least twice and ends up finishing. I think it was 13th or something weird like that. I mean, that's just disappointing. On a day where he proved he could run up front and had good speed. He finished in twelveth. That was what it was. And, man, that chapped my hide a little bit. But he's still doing good in points. He's plus 25. I don't think we have anything to worry about without a major problem next week. But, man, that does suck to see somebody running so good and then finish so far down. [00:52:32] Speaker B: Hey, I think if Roger Pinsky, he's Mr. Billionaire. If he wants the best of the best on pit road, he's up that pit road salary. There's people that are leaving Penske to go other places to make more it. You're not going to get the best of the best if you're not forking it out. [00:52:50] Speaker A: You really just. There's always struggles with Blaney. You texted me the other day at Darlington, death, taxes and Ryan Blaney losing spots on pit road. Yeah, it is the case. And I think that was part of the frustration Blaney had on the radio with crew. This is so much of a consistent problem. Like, what are we doing to fix it? Or are we just letting this go? [00:53:17] Speaker B: I don't remember what he said, but he was very aggressive, too. When he said, somebody go fuck. I want to say he said, choke him out. Somebody go fucking choke out. Brandon McReynolds, which is Chastain Spotter. I was like, dude, Blaine is getting aggressive here, wanting to fight on the spotter stand. But it kind of reminded me almost a little bit of bail last week when I told you, like, over driving, and who am I to say I'm not sitting that race car? But yesterday, with Blaney, his emotions in the car, he couldn't get calmed down, and he's cussing literally everybody out. He's calling for Brandon McReynold's head and Chastain. Nothing they could say was helping him. He was past that point of coming back emotionally, I feel like personally, and when you get to that point, whether you're in a race car or you're unloading a truck at a stage in Florida, it's just like you just get to that point where you lose your mind a little bit. [00:54:19] Speaker A: You do, and you just need to take a minute, which it's tough when you're in a race car, tough to. [00:54:22] Speaker B: Take a minute when you're in a race car. [00:54:26] Speaker A: And just cool the tires off and just tell everybody. I don't need to hear a damn word on the radio. Just give me five minutes to just collect myself. [00:54:33] Speaker B: That's the thing. That's exactly why you can't do that, though, when you're in a. [00:54:40] Speaker A: Uh. So Larson, on the other hand, now he goes out there and has a hell of a day. He led a ton of laps. He is the king of leading laps at Kansas, finishing in the top five, but not quite getting the deal sealed, which a lot of that has to do with how Danny Hammond's bumper 311 and Denny Hamlin is Hammond's bumper from the bay race, apparently. But all of that to say, Kyle Larson runs great at this racetrack. He proved it again. He goes up there and wins a stage, gets another playoff point, and then finishes in the top five. And now here he is. He's still building up points in a way that is going to propel him into the round of eight and into the round of four. And I could totally see him making it to that final four and vying for another championship with runs like he had yesterday. They did a great job. Even whenever they made a bad call with the amount of tires, with the tire situation that they had with that one pit cycle that set him back into the field, he still was able to come back up there and finish top five. I mean, that just proves in the confidence that he says, we're better than everybody around us right now on the radio, they've got the swagger, and they've got the confidence to make it. [00:55:57] Speaker B: And Cliff Daniels man comes in, they make the weird call, and then you got guys like chase. That call worked just fine. He's up there running in the top three when they did that. And Larson fell back to, like, 21st. So he pits and goes back to like, 27th or 20 eigth for new tires. Cliff Daniels comes across the radio and says, dude, I think with literally two lap better tires, you're the best car on the field. He comes out in a matter of, like, two to three laps, had gained 14 spots, and he drove all the way back up into the top ten. And I was like, to be a race car driver and to hear your crew chief say that. Exactly. And then you go out and what he says happens, man, that just has to make you sit in that race car and be like, dude, this guy knows what's up, and he knows whatever he says, I trust. [00:56:49] Speaker A: And a lot of that has to do with the driver, too, and their chemistry together of him understanding. If I give Kyle Larson this two lap better tires, and I send him back out there. I know his ability. He will go out there and he will outrun everybody around him. Because you can give that same setup and that same car to somebody that's like an Austin Cindric or a Ty gibbs. Not to pick on anybody in particular, but you're picking people that you could put into that same position are never going to do the same thing. [00:57:17] Speaker B: You're right. [00:57:18] Speaker A: That's part of your driver. [00:57:21] Speaker B: Yeah. So Cliff believes in Larson 110% and Larson believes in cliff 110%, which there's a couple of guys like Rodney Childers and Kevin Harvick and Jimmy Johnson and Chad Canaus that have that same and had that same. Yep. And their careers turned out pretty. [00:57:42] Speaker A: I. It just was another great day for him to go prove what he's made of. [00:57:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm excited about these next eight races. Last year didn't feel the same as the year before, but this year he has that swagger, I guess you could say. I think that the five and them have it this year. It feels like they have a good chance like they did in 21. [00:58:06] Speaker A: They really do. I could see it happening. I see at least another win for him by the end of the year, if not more than one. We'll see what that turns into. One more guy that ended up with a really good day, despite a whole lot of challenges, was Kyle Bush. Rex the car in practice. You just can't put it any other way. The eight team finds a way to show up every week with a huge issue and somehow manages to pull out a finish worthy enough to be in 7th place in the playoff standings right now, which is where he finished that race in, was 7th, comes out, and hardly even is a factor in the race until the very end, and then finishes in the top ten. [00:58:50] Speaker B: Just one of those good old fashioned chug, chug along and made it happen races. And that's what I hate, people wanting to shorten races. I like four and 500 miles races because exactly that right there. Those exact things. Like, if that race is any shorter, Kyle Bush doesn't even have a chance to show that he is. That's why Kyle Bush is a badass race car driver. That's one of those reasons. Like, if that's a shorter race, you don't get to see that side of Kyle Bush. And I think as race fans, that's what makes Kyle Bush, Kyle Bush and know, like, doing those kind of things over the course of a full race. [00:59:35] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. So that was really cool to see. I think we've got three other guys that we didn't really talk about much. Kevin Harvey, Willie B. Yeah. [00:59:45] Speaker B: Harvick. We called that. I hate that he got one spot off, but we called that. He ran top ten. He was even up there to third. He ran great all day yesterday and kept himself inside the top twelve, which is exactly what we said he would do. And I was like, check. Yes. [01:00:02] Speaker A: Dude, I swear, my bets this week were, I want Kevin Harvick to finish top ten. He finishes 11th. Who was the other one that I had that finished right outside the top three? I really need. [01:00:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I've been waiting to talk about bets this whole time. [01:00:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Kyle Larson. I had him as a top three. He finishes in fourth. I mean, if I picked it, he was one spot behind where I needed him. It happened to me over and over and over again. So, yeah, Kevin Hart finishes 11th. You got Chastain. He gets a top ten in stage one and then does nothing but finish 13th at the end of the race. That's another mid race. That'll get you through this round, but that ain't going to get you very far. And then. Yeah. Willie B spinning early, finishes in 15th. Started out strong. I could have seen him up there vying for a top five if that didn't happen. [01:00:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I think he would have. If he wouldn't have wrecked. Not that he hit anything, but I think he had a. I don't know, I thought he was going to be a top ten, like, up there kind of car, and it just never got back there. [01:01:05] Speaker A: But it was maybe enough day. He's still doing all right. I mean, he's still fourth in the playoff standings if he took. [01:01:10] Speaker B: He had so many points. Yeah, he had so many points. Running 15th, he's going to be just fine. Getting up there, getting into the end, that's not going to win the championship, but that'll get you to the party. [01:01:19] Speaker A: And then the last guy I can even think of is the guy that almost didn't exist on the broadcast yesterday, Michael McDowell. I hate it for the guy. It's exactly what we called. He's just not got the raw speed it's going to take to get out of the round of 16. And especially when you're back there vying with the two car wrecking him for no reason. I mean, had a wacky restart where everybody's piled up on top of each other. It's like, welcome to restarts in the next gen car. And then I think he's just frustrated. He knows he needs to go out there and win to move through. And that's the limitation of the car that you're in right now. But you made it to the playoffs again for the second year in a row by going out there and proven that you can win races. It just sucks for you that the first round of the playoffs is such a tough round for your organization. If it was the next round, if you flip flop the round of twelve and the round of 16, I think Michael McDowell has a chance to advance. With the way that it's set up now. Not a chance at all. [01:02:17] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right. I can't wait for the next round just so we can look at his finishes and see, not that we know where he would have done in points, but just to see how much better, you're going to see how much better, what his average finish is in the second round compared to his average finish in the first round. They will be drastically different. [01:02:34] Speaker A: They will. [01:02:38] Speaker B: Let's talk about the most exciting spot of the day. Dude. So yesterday, let's see. I got them all. I hadn't deleted them yet, so I got them all pulled up here. All right. I made 123-4567 bets. And, brother, I was already doing good before that last caution. And I was sitting at like, up 83, up 84, something like that. And I was like, totally content with that being the day right there. And that last caution comes out and I'm like, oh, shit, this is going to ruin it. This is going to ruin it right here. And I had a winning bet on Tyler Reddick and Larson, who was up there. But Tyler Reddick being at the very front, I had a winning bet on that, man. And that swung me. That was $50 swing. Swung it from $80 to 134. And I also have a bet. I bet on a pool with the guys in my dad's work. And that swung me to 194. I think it was 194 eightyed in. I had a four pick parlay, too. That hit. That was Hamlin over true x, which that hit immediately, obviously, on lap three. That hit. I had Reddick over Bell. Reddick outran Bell all day. Larson over Byron. Larson outran Byron all day. The one that flip flopped at the end and not till that one restart there where Chastain fell back so far. I picked Bush over Chastain, and that was not hitting at all until that happened. And Bush got into the top ten, finishing 7th. So I had that. That was plus 1031. Reddick was plus 900. I had a Hamlin top three. That was only like 100 or 110, which is not that much. And then I had another parlay. Bush over Chastain, Hammond over Truex, which was just a two part over the four that I had two weeks in a row that I've upped. My biggest last week was 89 was my biggest I'd ever had. And then this week, 134. So, man, I was so pumped, I didn't even know. Like, I was just so pumped. I was like, this is incredible. [01:05:20] Speaker A: So funny that your bets worked out so much better after that restart. Mine got worse because I had Hamlin to win. Ruddick, top three, Larson, top five. A parlay that was hitting. I had all sorts of stuff that was going great before the caution. Then the caution comes out and everything blew up, and the only thing I got was a 22 in the top five and the 45 in the top three. [01:05:43] Speaker B: Damn. [01:05:44] Speaker A: My xfinity went fine because I picked John Hunter to win. [01:05:47] Speaker B: That's what I was just about to say. Cashed in on Xfinity. [01:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I did cash in on Xfinity, so that was fine. But, yeah, I just struggled at cup after that last caution went down. I really thought the eleven was going to get it and the 45 was going to finish right behind them, which was the way it was going to go until the last restart. But that's part of racing. Not all of them are going to finish under green for the last 100 laps. There's going to be something that happens, and that two lap shootout will get you every time, just part of it. You can't win them all, but you sure can lose them in style. [01:06:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it was good. I enjoyed it. Next week for Bristol. I don't know. Usually I already have what I'm already thinking. I don't know what I'm going to bet next week. I have no idea. I don't even know who I'll bet. [01:06:38] Speaker A: Come down to the odds. [01:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't even know who I'm betting as winners or anything yet. [01:06:43] Speaker A: I really think that the guys that are going to have the best value to me just looking at it from the outside without seeing them yet is going to be your RFK guys. I feel like they're going to be undervalued on draftkings, and I think you can really get a steal with them for top fives, maybe even top tens. And then, of course, you always got to watch out for Kyle Bush at Bristol. He's always dangerous there. Every time I've gone to Bristol to watch a race, he's won it. So I'm tired of going there and watching Kyle Bush win. So he's definitely a good guy to place a bet on, maybe for a top five, top ten kind of thing, depending on where they've got him laid out. And Harvick, top ten, I think, would be a good bet this week as well. [01:07:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I think Harvick will run top ten again. I'm with you. I'm on the RFK train. I'm drinking that Koolaid. It's like Colorado. I'm drinking that Koolaid. I'm in short tracks and plate tracks was kind of where they found speed at first, anyway, at RFK and then road courses and then mile and a half kind of came along. But that's why man in the 17 has been faster than the six. But. [01:08:06] Speaker A: This week the six was way. [01:08:08] Speaker B: Faster than the 17. So I don't know, I could see Kez. I don't know if Kez has ever won at Bristol now that I was about to say that, I don't know if he ever has. But I could see Kez doing well because, like you said, the ods won't be in their favor. So I don't know. I am Mr. Short track, but I just don't know yet. I want to see what they put them up as before I jump off the deep end. [01:08:32] Speaker A: I'm with you on that. A lot of it comes down to what the ods look like, who your favorites are, who you think is going to run. Well, I think somebody to look against. We already talked about Bubba. I don't think he's going to really have much to say about this race or the next round. Yeah, I'd have trouble betting on the Penske guys for top fives this week. I really don't know if I see them coming up and having that day. I think they're trying to just get out of this round and move on to somewhere. They all have some wins and some success at know your Talladega and your roval coming in. There's just a lot. I can't even remember what the other one on the schedule was. Yeah, the Roeville, Texas. That was the last one. I think they'll have a little bit more success in the next round. Willie B might be somebody to look at. He might have something to say about it. And then Kyle Larson, of course he's going to come out there and run great. [01:09:33] Speaker B: I mean, he's won at Bristol before, but he's still another guy that just doesn't jump off the page. Kind of like the same thing I said about true x. He doesn't jump off the page. [01:09:42] Speaker A: Nobody really does. It's hard. [01:09:44] Speaker B: And no one's jumping off the page at me. Now that I've made a little money the last two weeks, I might go for some weirder bets this week. I might make some weird, funky bets. I don't know. We'll see. [01:10:00] Speaker A: Why not. [01:10:04] Speaker B: I saw that you have trade and paint here. I have the bell dwalt car. It's funny you have that. [01:10:13] Speaker A: I love that. [01:10:14] Speaker B: Hated it. Hated it. [01:10:15] Speaker A: You hated that? [01:10:16] Speaker B: Hated it. [01:10:17] Speaker A: I thought it looked good on the track, man. [01:10:20] Speaker B: I posted on Twitter earlier this week when they announced the 20 and the 21. I'm a big fan of flames on a race car because they add 15 hp, but I'm not in on these cars having sparks on the car. I was like, these are like fake flames. Like, that gives you less horsepower. So I was not filling the sparks on the 20 or the 21 car this week. I was not filling those. I don't even have like a trading paint that I just like over the top loved of anybody's car, but definitely was not a fan of the 20, the 21. I was also not a fan of that black and gold 23. So if your car was in the 21, 21 or 23, not a fan of how those looked. So I'm going to do like you did the other week and just go ahead and say my favorite was Larson. Just because the red, he was running an alternate scheme. [01:11:17] Speaker A: He was running an alternate scheme, which was awesome to see, you know, how I feel about his original, his normal paint scheme. I'm not a fan of that. So to see him switch it up, I'm always a fan. [01:11:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm a fan of that american flag car. So my trading paint is going to be the five, definitely not the 20. [01:11:33] Speaker A: Heck yeah. Well, I think you have the hack of the week to talk about this week. I'm to let you have the floor. [01:11:41] Speaker B: What do you say? The award. What you're saying with hack of the. [01:11:44] Speaker A: Week, the award nobody wants, but you got to work hard to earn it. You got to go out there and earn it the hard way. [01:11:50] Speaker B: You got to go out and earn it the hard way. Yeah, I'm very involved in don't have. I have negative traction on Twitter. Twitter's where I have the least amount of followers. Most everything I post, no one gives a fuck about. I'm pretty much a nobody on there. No one cares what I say on Twitter because I get like eleven people where I view it and there's like one like that's usually how my Twitter situation goes. [01:12:23] Speaker A: And it's usually me or McKinney. [01:12:25] Speaker B: Exactly. Yesterday, I make a post, and I used to be a massive chase Elliott fan, and he's done and said some things over the last couple years, and I'm like, this dude has changed drastically. I don't know if he's growing up or if he's pissed off or he's not having fun anymore. I don't know what it is, but he's just like. I'm just like, that was a little weird. That was off. I didn't like what he said there, what he did there, and I posted that yesterday. And as we're sitting here, never happens. This is this morning when I knew something was going on. I had 1819 twitter notifications. Also, I have 18, if you can see that I have 18 right now. So I'm going to click on this and see what all is going on on here, but I need to get the. It's almost like 2020 was a fluke, and now he's trying to stay relevant. Becoming second fiddle will do that to you. Sort of what happened with Jeff Gordon for a while. So I made that post about chase changing, like, changing and not being. Not me being the biggest fan anymore. And this post has 30,000 views. That's, like, more views than I get with all my tweets combined, which is hilarious. It has 216 likes. But then you have people in the comments that are just like, fuck you, you idiot. Yeah. Oh, my God, there's so many replies to this. Like, I'm looking at it right now. So my hack of the week is all you salty Chase Elliott fans that are in my dms right now calling me a little daisy, little daisy or whatever the fuck. It literally got a hundred views since we've been sitting here. Somebody said little Dawson's with a little. [01:14:23] Speaker A: Chase Elliot card just sitting right here. So there you go. To all the Chase Elliott guys. We don't hate Chase Elliot. We just don't like you. [01:14:30] Speaker B: Yeah, the fans, man, are just, like, delusional. Know, it just is what it. It's hilarious. Like, I'm just looking through some of this stuff, and there's people in arguments within arguments within arguments on the comments, which is hilarious. That's how this thing is, like, getting traction, I guess, on twitter. Honestly, I'm not shitting you, man. 216 likes. I think my most liked tweet before was, like, 111, and it was about where the. This was, like, years ago when they're talking about moving the door, the number on the door. I made a post about had a picture of a car and I said this is where the number should be. And it was like in the door and it got like 111, something like that. And that was my previous most liked tweet. And now I made this tweet and I said, I don't know what's up with Chase, man. I used to love this guy, but he's changed so much in three years and it has 216 likes. Oh my God, we're almost at 40,000 views since I've been sitting here. It's went up from 30.5 to 30.9 since we've been sitting here talking about hack of the week. So it's just hilarious. Like one all these people agree and then the 40 people that don't are just calling me a little bitch on here, which is hilarious. I love when people talk on the Internet, specifically to people that are like, you don't know anybody. So I don't ever comment on people's stuff and call them a bitch or anything like that. But people are like, call me a crybaby or something like that. Dude on TikTok that time we were getting all those like, you don't know what you're talking like, I freaking love that. It is so fucking funny to me. And just that one guy, it's like, oh, I'm sure Chase cares about what little Dawson thinks about like, that is. [01:16:24] Speaker A: So funny for someone. Well, you know he's listening to this podcast. [01:16:28] Speaker B: No, I'm just about to go comment this link on all these comments. Like I said, there's 40 comments originally on mine, but then each one of those comments has someone arguing on there. So it's like there's probably over 100 comments total on this post, which is definitely what's keeping it like up on the algorithm or whatever. [01:16:45] Speaker A: Oh, for sure. [01:16:46] Speaker B: Oh man. But it's so funny that my most liked tweet ever is that, that's just hilarious to me. Hack of the week. [01:16:53] Speaker A: That is funny. [01:16:54] Speaker B: Salty Chase Elliott fans, that's my hack of the week because nobody on the track really did much. [01:16:59] Speaker A: This was, it was a pretty good week of racing. [01:17:04] Speaker B: It was a great week between all three series. [01:17:07] Speaker A: Yeah, nobody really did anything dumb. I mean, the dumbest thing that happened, honestly, I can't even think of anything. My original thought about hack of the week was right rear tires blowing out at Kansas because it seems like every time we show up, right rears just spontaneously explode at random points. And I mean, you make a good point. You talked about it before we started that you like seeing a couple tires go out. And don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against that either, but right rear tires at Kansas are. I mean, it's like they're making them out of donuts. It doesn't make any sense. That's the only tire that ever blows. They blow them every year. It's been a problem since the next gen car started going there, and it's just constant. So that's getting old to me. If it's random tires going out at random times because they're soft like we want them to be, hell yeah. If it's just blowing right rear tires because you kind of ran the car a little bit too hard and it just blows up out of nowhere, that sucks to me because then everybody's driving with gloves on, just trying not to overdrive their car. I want to see that because the tires are wearing off and your speed is going down. I don't want to see that because you don't know when your tire is going to explode on you. So I almost had that, but I think yours was just funnier. So I just wanted yours to win the hack of the week award. And I brought a little crown for know. [01:18:32] Speaker B: There we go. [01:18:33] Speaker A: Little crown for your salty Chase Elliott fans. [01:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:36] Speaker A: As your hack of the week award this week, I should just get a little name tag and put Chase Elliott Salty fans right here. That's funny. [01:18:43] Speaker B: Yeah. We didn't talk about this at the beginning, but I don't think we did. We are going to be gone for the next two weeks. We're going out on a two week run and we haven't really talked about what our plan is with the podcast. What we're going to do now that we're remote, man, we might could pack this stuff up and do it on the road. [01:19:02] Speaker A: I plan on packing mine up and bringing it with me. So if, worst case, we may be doing this where we just have one camera and one set up, but we'll figure something a we've got plenty of time out on the road to figure it out. I think we got our first show tomorrow in Knoxville and then after that we've got the three Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then we'll have Sunday, Monday, Tuesday off next week and then we'll only have to do one remote. Luckily, we'll be back by that next Monday. [01:19:34] Speaker B: I was going to say, though, we might hop on Wednesday and just bullshit and throw something up on the razor racing page because we're going to be completely go over our ship shawana. Yeah, we're going to be in ship Shawana, Indiana on a day off. So we might just hop on, get Burrell to throw up, maybe even just 30 minutes. A little midweek action betting podcast. [01:19:58] Speaker A: That'd be fun. It gives us something to do. So if you have something that you want to hear from us for our Wednesday podcast, and you're listening sometime between Monday and Tuesday, and you made it all the way to the hour and 20 minutes that we're on now, let us know what you want to hear us talk about. We'll talk about our previous hacks of the weeks. We can talk about bets that we want to place for Bristol. We can talk just about how the road goes and how that all works. I mean, we're down to answer anything. So we're looking for interaction. If you want us to say something, then just let us know. Even if it's just Randy wanting us to say hi to him again because we love Randy, then hell yeah. Let's keep it that way. But yeah, just let us know what you want to hear about and we will do our best to put together a podcast tailored to what you want to hear. That'd be awesome. [01:20:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it'd be cool. Yeah, I think that's pretty much it for this week. Today is 911, so we're thinking about all the families that are affected by that. That's been, what, 22 years ago? That absolutely blows my mind. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I was only five or six years old back then. But we're thinking about all those people that were affected by that. Looking forward to Bristol. Like I said, we'll probably talk to you all on Wednesday. [01:21:11] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. So go follow us. Give us didn't expect this to be. [01:21:16] Speaker B: An hour 20 minuteer, but here we are. Yeah. [01:21:18] Speaker A: Social media playoff time. Lots to talk about. As the rounds whittle drivers away, there will be less and less to talk about and our last podcast will be about five minutes long. Just congratulating the winner. Be too hungover to do anything else. [01:21:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Dawson Everett music is where you can find all of my yeah, go follow him. Great. Chase Elliott tweets, I guess. Yeah. [01:21:41] Speaker A: If you want to talk shit about his Chase Elliott, his lack of love for Chase Elliott Salty fans, you can go onto his recent Twitter post, Dawson Edwards music. You can follow me at Caleb Conrody on any platform. Just go out there and find me. Don't forget to follow Raised rowdy racing. It is RZD rowdy racing on Twitter because they have short handle requirements. And don't forget to follow Raised rowdy. Raised rowdy. Nikki T and Matt Burrell. Thank y'all for all the help. And thank y'all for sticking with us through a long form podcast this morning. Even Stella just managed to sleep through the whole thing. I'm impressed. We did pretty good. But anyway, I reckon we'll be seeing everybody all Wednesday. Yeah, y'all have a good now it's Bristol baby. [01:22:52] Speaker B: Carlo and my truck ain't painted black it ain't got a big white number three turning left around a track but you can hear me coming from a mile and a half away these good years can't handle dirt don't need no turns with banks what I like in horses I make up with four by four I'm in and out of traffic till I make it to your door checkers record my foot hammered on the gas I'm making my way to you girl earn hard fast you my hood don't say good ring ain't never been.