Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:03 Welcome to Ray's Rowdy Racing with Caleb Conrady and Dawson Edwards.
Speaker 2 00:00:13 What up beautiful people? Woo <laugh>. It was early, early in the morning. Monday after the, uh, beautiful All-Star race. Welcome to Ray Rowdy Racing, episode six. My name is Dawson Edwards. I'm Caleb Conrey and I'm your head degenerate. Ni t head degenerate. We're, we're here having a blast this morning. I, I was not having a blast about an hour ago. I was definitely hurting <laugh>. Even I was having was hurting like Cody Johnson. Yep. I was having anything other than a blast. I got woke up at seven o'clock in the morning cuz that's when, uh, that's when my fiance goes to work. So I was up early, we were up late. I don't know how much I've actually slept in the last like 48 hours. Yes. We had an interesting weekend. I guess we can dive off into that and start this one. Yeah, let's hear about it.
Speaker 2 00:00:58 Yeah. We haven't even told Nicky t about all this yet. About Okay. Us We're gonna press this picture. We'll give this picture to Ike if he wants to put this in a clip. So this will be great. So, played three shows this weekend. We left on Wednesday night Normal. We had a show in, uh, two shows in PA that went great. A show yesterday in New York. Went great right outside of Buffalo. And this is a weird week because we also have a show we leave again tonight for another show, so, damn. It's a, it's been a lot. And then we'd leave. We have a show leave tonight, show Tuesday, um, come back home. Come back home and then go out again like Thursday night the next day. Damn. So that's fine and dandy. We were supposed to get back here back to Nashville. We were supposed to get back here yesterday.
Speaker 2 00:01:40 I think about 11, 10 30, 11, something like that. Yeah. Apparently Buffalo, New York is not as far away as I thought it was. We were supposed to leave at like 12 30, 11 hours. Yeah. Still get here by like 1130 in the morning. So we wake up, Caleb wakes up about seven 30 he says Yeah. And says, man I feel like I've been sleeping too good. Like, I don't think this bus has been, you know, moving for a minute. Yeah. And I, I, whenever I do come to life, I realize that the generator is running cuz every bus says a generator on the motor's not running. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And so I hear the generator buzzing and I'm thinking we could be at a fuel stop. I think that's what we're doing is we're just getting fuel. They turn the engines off for that naturally. So I look at my map and I realize that yes, we're right off the interstate, we're at a travel spot, but where if Google has placed me is like on the furthest edge of the parking lot.
Speaker 2 00:02:26 And of course you're in bunk alley, you can't see anything. There's no windows. Yeah. Pitch black seven 30 in the morning. So I'm like, we have to be getting fuel. I jump outta my bunk and Josh our drummer, leans outta his, whenever he hears me, he is like, Hey man, I feel like we've been sitting here a while. Do you know what's up? And I was like, dude, I just woke up. I didn't think there was anything wrong. I think we're just getting fuel. He is like, nah man, I think we've been here for a minute. Dang. So <laugh>, we go walking up to the front lounge or I do. And uh, I go in there and I open up a curtain and the first thing I see is the whole parking lot. We are not in a fuel line. So that's immediately when you're supposed to be somewhere and you're stopped somewhere else, you know, something's wrong.
Speaker 2 00:03:06 <laugh>. So we had our driver and our co-driver up there, Chuck and uh, went up and talked to Chuck and I was like, Hey man, what's going on? He said, dude, water pump went out on the bus last night. We tried to limp it go slow, at least he said 20 minutes in we were spitting water again. So dead end da de like just dead on arrival. Did not make it pass. We were in Jeffersonville, Ohio. Yep. Middle of pretty much nothing in between Columbus and Cincinnati. So I had woke up at about eight 30 to a text. Caleb says, Hey, buses broke down, water pumps out. So I just get up, go to the bathroom and it's like, I was like, screw it, I'll just go back to bed. Might as well. So we went back to bed, slept for a couple hours. I don't know what time it was when we went to Denny's, but Caleb like just taps in the back.
Speaker 2 00:03:50 He's like, Hey dude, do you wanna go to Denny's? There's also a Denny's attached to this, uh, flying Jay, Jay. So Cale's like, Hey dude, you wanna go to Denny's? And I was like, yeah, let me get my stuff together man. We'll go man. I was thy <laugh>. Yeah, thy, yeah. The, uh, we go, we go to Denny's dude and we hang out. We have nothing to do though. We drank a few cups of coffee. We eat an omelet. Like we just sat there and shot the bull for quite a while. Yeah. We just sat, we like leaned back in the booth and just, you know, hung out. Didn't pay for a while, like just, you know, whatever. We go up to pay Caleb's like I'm gonna get the lawn chair out and sit out on the, you know, the, the grass or whatever. So Caleb's wearing the same shirt he has on today.
Speaker 2 00:04:29 A yesterday premium tank top. Yeah, absolutely. Tank top. It was a razor out. Nicotine gave it to me before Key West Chef's kiss. Thank you for that. Because this shirt saved lives, this shirt legitimately saved lives day. This is one of the most luckiest stars lining thing possibly I've ever happened in my whole life. That's what's about, I'm about to say is crazy. Wow. It's really not that crazy, but to me it's crazy that this worked out. So Caleb goes out there, he's on the phone, he is sitting in the lawn chair about like, he's sitting in right now and he's outside the bus, just in the grass of the plate of this, of this little spot. People are in their dog shit everywhere behind Caleb. Dude, I was having a Dodge dog shit everywhere. <laugh>. So as I was sitting out there, so, so I said something about, man, Caleb looks stupid or something like that.
Speaker 2 00:05:12 I don't know what I said. I was like, man, he looks like an idiot out there. And uh, few minutes go by. Leroy still player, he was playing a game on his computer. He shuts his computer down and looks out the window and goes, dude, that's the picture you need right there. He's just country relaxing. So I turn around, I take the picture of him on Instagram, take the picture. I put, he's just country relaxed, like at Leroy. Like he said it, I tagged Caleb. And so just like, and then you also put broke down as hell or not as fuck in the uh, for just shits and giggles. I was like broke down as fuck. And then tagged Jeffersonville, Ohio story is on my, that picture's on my story for four single minutes. And I get a text from PJ North. I don't know if you know pj.
Speaker 2 00:05:55 Yeah, I do. Yeah. He's PJ is, he is a close friend of mine and I get a text, he's like, dude, I'm sitting in traffic. I'm like 15 minutes away from Jeffersonville, Ohio. Like, do you want me to pick you up? And I was like, no fucking way. He's like, unbelievable. He's like, send me your location. And like we're, he's, there was a, there was a really bad wreck and the interstate was actually shut down. Interstate 71 was shut down completely. So he couldn't go anyway. He was having to find an alternate route to get home no matter what. So that's all, you know, working out. And he is like, send me your location so I can see how far away I am. This dude is eight miles from us. And I was like, oh my God. He was like, dude, he's like, I'll be there in eight minutes.
Speaker 2 00:06:31 I was like, holy shit. I go inside, I grab my phone charger, my bunk bag, I go outside, put some socks on, grab my bag. By the time I did that, boom, he's pulling in the parking lot. I was like, holy shit. Just, we told the band and they're just like, like, y'all really have a buddy that was going down the road. And I was like, yeah, crazy situation, but we're we're deuces. We'll see y'all later. Yeah. <laugh>, everybody on that bus, their eyes just got as big as my sunglasses are right now. They looked at us and were like, no, no way. How are y'all managing to do that? Like we, me and Caleb are known for pulling some shit out of our ass. <laugh>. And it happens more times than that. It definitely happened. Yes. And, and we talked about a list of things that have just happened over the years that we've just pulled completely out of our ass outta nowhere.
Speaker 2 00:07:14 <laugh>. Yeah. And do this one like goes to the top of the list. It was definitely at the top of my list. My favorite part about it too is, I mean the moment Dawson calls me and says, Hey PJ's on the way I'm walking this little, uh, they have a little ATV trail that goes back to an RV campsite so that way they can get up to the flying Jay. And so I'm just walking along it cuz I'm bored as hell dodging dog shit. Yeah. Nothing to do. Dodging dog shit. <laugh> and we're think the, we get a text from our tour manager Scott, the moment that while this is happening, while Dawson's talking to me, we get a text from Scott and he says, Hey boys, there's a relief bus coming, but it ain't gonna be here till at least four. And it's like 1:00 PM at this point where we're at.
Speaker 2 00:07:54 Maybe 12:31 PM Yeah. Somewhere that's, and he tells us that relief bus is not gonna get there till four. I'm gonna give y'all an extra days per diem. So we basically got paid a small amount of money but still got paid to be broke down and we left four or five hours earlier than anybody else did. So we finally make it to Nashville at like, what we got back to the house at like seven 30. Yeah, right, right around the race was starting. They, the rest of the band and crew did not get home until maybe 11:00 PM 10 or 11. So we were able to get home, watch the race, drink at home because of PJ North coming out summertime. We had an absolute ball going down the road. Dude, we PJ he says the funniest shit you've ever heard. So I mean, we're like in tears laughing about stuff like it, it was one of the most enjoyable like four hour drives I've ever had.
Speaker 2 00:08:39 Like we're just dying, laughing, having a blast. So that's great. Shout out PJ North. He is a baller. He is. For making that happen. Absolutely. And we just, I mean Shak blessings from can't believe, can't believe that happened dude. Like what an incredible guy. Yeah. That was just in that, that wild situation. Can't believe it even worked out. And yeah. Crazy. All of that to get us here to record this podcast. Just to get on that broke down bus again tonight. <laugh>. Yeah. Leave again. Leave again. We might, are we gonna be on the same bus? Who knows. They might have to. Yeah. They said that's my favorite part as I asked Chuck and he said, honestly they said it's not gonna take too long to fix the water pump. I was like, yeah, I just have to have a water pump. <laugh>. Yep. So, so that was our weekend. Where
Speaker 3 00:09:19 Are you guys going to today?
Speaker 2 00:09:20 Wabash, Jackson, Tennessee, Indiana. Oh, sorry. That's the second one. Wabash Indiana. Yeah. Yeah. Jackson. Tennessee's the next one like on We Thursday. Yeah. The closest one. Hell yeah. So we're gonna go,
Speaker 3 00:09:30 Jackson's nice. We
Speaker 2 00:09:31 Gonna go ride the Cannonball this
Speaker 3 00:09:32 Time of year. It
Speaker 2 00:09:33 Is <laugh> this time of year. <laugh>. As long as you're not downtown, right? Yeah. <laugh>. We had a blast when we were in Jackson with uh, Corey Smith that time. Yeah, well you opened up for Corey. That was a lot of fun. They had pizza at this joint. Incredible pizza. Really, really
Speaker 3 00:09:46 Was a
Speaker 2 00:09:46 Called, I don't remember. I'm gonna find it though for after show food. For sure. Don't the pizza pizza place was awesome. They had this like, uh, they had that, they had like that deal seasoning on the one I had and it was like very, was
Speaker 3 00:09:57 It rock and dough pizza? I'm not sure. Was that the venue? Venue had a
Speaker 2 00:10:00 Pizza? The, yeah the venue had a pizza place at it. There's like a bowling alley that might've actually been, that's Rock and Dough Pizza. I think that was it. Yeah. There we go.
Speaker 3 00:10:06 Their beer's good too. Their pizza is really
Speaker 2 00:10:08 Good. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. And my go
Speaker 3 00:10:10 Ahead. They got one uh, that's Hub City Brewing is what it's called. Yes. That
Speaker 2 00:10:14 Is the name of the place. That's the place man. Nick t knows our schedule better than you
Speaker 3 00:10:17 Do. They own rock and dough pizza that's over in the west end. Okay. Where they host revival.
Speaker 2 00:10:21 Okay. Yeah. So there's one of those pizza joints in Nashville. Yes. Oh, we should go get it. Incredible. Incredible. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:10:26 We should go get this.
Speaker 2 00:10:27 They had that shout out Rock and do pizza. They'll sponsor our podcast. Yeah. Little seasoning on there. Great stuff. My favorite part of this and uh, I posted this all over social media because it was so funny. They hand me my, after we get after show food, you know, whatever. And Cale's Caleb was doing that then he's also doing that now. Shout out Caleb Frog is keeping us full fat and happy. Arby's Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell. Man. It never fails. Dude. Caleb got some Philly cheese steaks in Philly this weekend that were just the best. Like what, what some of the best after show food I've ever had. Uh, Chicky and Pete's. Oh yeah. Chicks and Petes. Did you guys get
Speaker 3 00:10:59 Get the base seasoning fries?
Speaker 2 00:11:00 Uh, yes I did. Yes. Yes we did. Grab fries. Crabby fries. Dude, let's go. Amazing. Incredible. So everything Caleb does a great job of like, when, you know, we do have to get Arby's or Chick-fil-A sometimes just cause if you're in the middle of nowhere 90% of the time if we can go like we're in Philly, like he gets his cheese steaks, you know, something like that. It's like, that is incredible. If we were in Louisiana, you get raisin canes. Yeah. Stuff like that. Just try to like match where you're at. Dude, we got PS one time in Pittsburgh cuz Caleb was like, screw it, we're going with PIs. Oh, I did. And I spent way too much money. <laugh> I saved money elsewhere. So it all kind of evened out. But damn, I blew through a budget that day. I just said, screw it.
Speaker 2 00:11:35 I'm getting this. I need coleslaw on my sandwich. <laugh>. So throwback again. So we after show food, eating the pizza and I'm just the opener. Nobody, nobody knows who the hell I am. They have my name and it says dolphin question mark. <laugh> like swims in the sea, dolphin dolphin all night. You know, Dawson Dolphin. I dolphin Edwards. I get it. Like I get it. But dude, I died laughing. I was like, you know, you're the opener when they call you dolphin and then he put a question mark next to your food name, you know, your order. And that's just like, that is a highlight of that place. But pizza was so good. It was for sure. But, uh, Butch my name up that bad man. What a time. But Dolphin Edwards. Dalton Edwards. Yes sir. That's incredible. Either way though, this isn't an after show food podcast.
Speaker 2 00:12:18 This is a NASCAR podcast. We got, we got a lot of NASCAR to talk about. Baby. Let's go. Hell yeah man. North Wil bro North. Woo. Hell yeah. I was fired up yesterday, man. My throat still kind of hurts from all the hollering out. Oh, this man was hollering so loud. It was echoing around. Yeah, I made an echo. I made an echo off the woods. I was, dude, I was fired up yesterday. Oh yeah. We uh, we on our way home with pj, we bought 12 packs of beer each and we were already popping tops. We were popping tops before we'd even gotten home. And of course, only when it's in legal states. Of course. Absolutely. We weren't driving, so Yeah, we weren't driving. So it is legal to do that in Tennessee. Yes. You can drink a beer in the truck in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 00:12:55 So we, we got home already, like tuned up a little bit and we started partying the moment we got there. I took a tv, put it outside. We were watching all of those last a hundred laps just sitting on the porch with us just hooting and hollering. We were having a ball, man. It was awesome. Yeah. And you had a great day, obviously. I mean, you're wearing the, you're wearing everything you need to show up. Come on Larson. Larson swept the weekend, won me large amounts of money premium. And I I did great on NASCAR best this weekend. Mr. Short track. Mr. Short track. Mr. Short, short track. I don't agree what it is. I don't know what it is man. I have nailed the three or four short tracks we've done this year and then it's just been great. And it's so funny because there's so much about that short track that did not pan out the way that I thought it was going to with who ran well and who didn't run well.
Speaker 2 00:13:40 I mean, you had Kyle bus finishing third from last. That doesn't ever happen. I'll tell you we're, uh, we're at the Denny's and this is how unconfident I was in Kyle Larson to start yesterday at Denny's the restaurant. Denny's the restaurant. Yeah. Yes. What the fuck is up Denny's Fuck is up Denny's. That was exactly, I screamed that about four times on here right when we were walking the door. So, uh, Liam Staley, he's, he loves sports betting too. He texts me or we call each other talking on the phone. He asked me who to put money on. I literally say, dude, don't put money on Larson. He looks like dog shit. That Caleb was dodging out in the ATV parking lot. Yep. It was te I was like, even he said like he was doing terrible. The car was running slow. He qualified like 16th.
Speaker 2 00:14:22 And then on the first run he goes from 16th to 21st. I'm like, no chance. You know, prediction's coming true. Yeah. I was like, yeah. I was like, I don't know what the hell's up, but this is terrible dude. They did a pit stop and that motherfucker didn't, he let lap after the pit stop. Okay. Daryl Walter put it the best. They waved some kind of magic wand over that car cuz it went from terrible turd to just holy polish poop. Man. It went all the way back to the front. Holy Polish, Polish Holy Polish poop. Hell yeah dude. They they got that five car tuned up dude. And he hit him with the old fashioned ass whooping at a old NASCAR race. That is exactly in my personal opinion. We talked, uh, we said this this morning, like NASCAR needed that. Like you can say, oh no cautions, yada yada y fuck that NASCAR needed an old school race with no gimmicks and at an old track.
Speaker 2 00:15:16 Mm-hmm <affirmative> that felt like eighties and nineties nascar. Shout out to the dude that called me a candy ass this weekend and said I would hate not eighties and nineties nascar. Uh, cuz I, I have a soft spot in my heart for eighties and nineties nascar and I loved yesterday's race. So shout out to you my man. I know. I, when we, when we pulled up the TikTok video and saw that he had commented that, I just started laughing cuz it was incredible. I was like, what is he even talking about? We're not even saying, we're not talking about racing. We're talking about what Arson and Chastain did. One particular incident. This guy just throws Dawson under the bus. Dude, you would've hated eighties and nineties NASCARs. Y'all were so soft, man. You're just a candy ass <laugh>. Incredible. I laughed my tail off and I was did I I was telling Dawson on the way here, man, it is so easy to piss off old school NASCAR fans.
Speaker 2 00:16:01 All you've gotta do is two things. You just gotta look him in the eye and you don't even have to mean it. You just look 'em in the eye and say, man, I think stages have added a whole lot to NASCAR <laugh> and they make the racing even better. And Jeff Gordon was way better than Dale Earnhardt <laugh>. And then everybody's ready just to fight you right there. Right there. I probably have somebody sending hate mail to me right now. <laugh>, if we make this into a TikTok video, I guarantee you right now there's someone typing a comment throwing me under the bus that's not listening to anything else about, they're definitely calling Caleb a candy ass. They are for sure. And I'm I'm ass Caleb man. I'm telling you right now. I don't mean it, but by God I, all I have to do is say it And Moom, we got hate comments coming in immediately.
Speaker 2 00:16:42 No, no questions asked. Exactly. I love old school nascar. I love new school nascar. I love all forms of nascar. I am all inclusive on that set car tomorrow in nascar. We all hated that. Well I never even watched one of those races. I don't even have a chance to hate it. So <laugh>. But man, I think, no I'm not gonna say everybody cuz they're definitely not all on board. Cause I saw a lot of people shitting on it, you know, having all those green flag laps. But dude, like what more could you want at an old track? In the old it just felt, it felt nineties. Like the last time they said, the last time that a, uh, a car had like lapped every driver in the field, which Larson didn't do that obviously, but Laughed car in the field was at Wilkesboro in 94 in Jeff.
Speaker 2 00:17:23 Jeff Bow ones the winner. Yeah. In the 26th Quaker State car property. Yep. Only car on that race to finish it with 500 laps. Everybody else only did 4 99. So sponsored by Aaron's, they said Larry Mac, dw, all those guys at raced at Wilkesboro, you know, and all they were all like, man, it it ha it gets into a green flag running like it does. And that just, and it felt old school to them. It felt old school to me. I enjoyed the piss out of it. One because Larson won. I won money and I wanted some more other parlay stuff. So I don't know. I if you didn't like that, then just don't watch Kyle Bus. You're a candy ass call bus out. Yeah. You're a candy ass when you make that race. <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:18:02 Hey, hate comments or comments too, man. We'll take them.
Speaker 2 00:18:04 Absolutely love it. I love I love that. You know what that all good comments, bad comments. You know what, it all falls under engagement. Engage engagement does. Absolutely. That just bumps our numbers up. So if you got hate, throw it our way. This, this other guy comments and I'm, I'm just, you know, we're just talking about the wreck, the Chastain Larson deal. And this guy goes, this dude has no idea what he's talking about. <laugh> like, dude right here above, above your head, the video is playing of exactly what you're talking about. And I was like, dude, I know more about racing than you know about your life. So I don't know what to tell you dog, but I died laughing at that one too. It's just like, this dude has no idea what he's talking about. Fuck. I love it though. It's Oh, me too.
Speaker 2 00:18:43 It's awesome. It, the video did really well. I know it did really well. Hey, thank you to everybody who likes and comments and everything. Yeah. Y'all are really helping us out here. That's the biggest thing. Like we we're gonna, we, I mean we did it on the post, like, we're gonna engage back with you. Like we'll talk to you about something like, you know for sure whether you call me a candy ass or not. Like I'll still comment back <laugh>. I'll drink a beer with that guy. That's what I, hell yeah man. When we started this podcast, we were like, look, hey, we'll we'll drink a beer with anybody. We don't claim to be NASCAR drivers. Like, we're just here to, you know, if you'd like us or hate us, we'll drink a beer with you. We don't care. Heck yeah man. That's, this argument is cold long. It's cold. Absolutely. And you know what, if we're really in a pinch, I'll take a warm one too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:19:22 I'd rather drink a warm twisted tea than a warm beer. I know that sounds weird, but
Speaker 2 00:19:25 Ooh, I just don't know if I ever, I Hey Kyle Larson got a twisted tea yesterday thrown over the top. Yeah, that's what they threw over the fence to. I guarantee you that was a warm, twisted tea. I bet it was. The best twisted tea he's ever tasted. Tasted like a million bucks. Yeah, dude, <laugh>. Absolutely. Yeah. That was, that was another thing that Caitlin was, you know, she, she's done, she did, she's always shotgun beers. I guess this started, you know, probably 20 18, 20 19 Kyle Larson's wife by the way. Yeah. Kyle Larson's wife. Every time he won he would, she would shotgun a beer in like Victory Lane. And then in 2020 Larson goes on that tirade where he literally wins every other day cuz he races a lot of other racing cars. Yeah. Dude wins every other day. And in a 2021 when he won a championship winning every other day and he, she was like, I can't keep shotgun and beers every time you're in Victory Lane.
Speaker 2 00:20:13 Like you're winning too much <laugh>. So she quit doing it for a minute. What a great problem to have. That is a Phenomen problem. That's a great problem to have. And then boom, it's, they asked her before the race, like, if Larson wins the million, all you know, for the All-Star race are you're gonna do it. She's like, if he puts it in Victory Lane, I'll do it. Dude. She goes out there and they're throwing beers over the stands to try to get her a beer. They, they had, I saw Twisted Tees cos lights, they were just throwing whatever they had over there to get to it. Incredible man. It's just, and they probably were warm. I don't know. They, I guarantee you they were warm. I mean if that track allowed coolers in it, I mean that was that 2020 problems. But yeah, I don't know, bringing it back, back up.
Speaker 2 00:20:47 I didn't see anybody bitch complain about it. So they probably allowed Coors. Heck yeah. Does North Wilkesboro have lights? That's what we they do. And they were really good <laugh>. Jeff Wil says he thought they were the best lights in nascar. The oldest track now has the best lights. Dang. Dang. I like that. Yeah. Well if you gotta get a win somehow you got the wind there. Yeah. The man, it was, I I agree with you. It was a lot of fun to watch. I know they had the, they had a whole fresh set of tires down there they didn't even use, doesn't Goodyear allow returns? I wonder can you get refunds on tires? <laugh>, they told Alison last night, it's like you got 12 sets, you gotta pay for all 12. Yeah. It just is what it is. I know. And they, so they, uh, the last a hundred laps, they said you could have one set of tires you could put 'em on at any point.
Speaker 2 00:21:27 And somehow the Cup Series guys managed to get to the end of that race without a single incident. No caution. Incredible spins. That's that's wild. I mean, the cars coming off the track looking like they're swimming, they're so loose. Yeah. And coming off of war, barely missing the wall. Some of them even hitting the wall. Absolutely crazy. All the, all things considered absolutely crazy that they've managed to make that last a hundred lap run and never have an issue. Yeah. Kyle Larson takes a hundred laps on those tires and still burns out around the entire thing and doesn't blow one out. It's incredible. Some tires are still the problem. We all think <laugh>. Ah, I don't, I don't, I didn't have a single problem with that. I didn't have a problem with it either. Too much tread or more tread or medium tread, like what's going on?
Speaker 2 00:22:06 They just, they just need it softer is what I softer. Yeah. It, it was what we talked about a long time ago with the, with the tire fall off. It's, it's like this old worn out track that's got all these weird grooves and the traction patches couldn't, uh, Clint Boyer couldn't stop talking about. It was, it was really cool to see the fact that the tires were falling off, but there's still such a hard compound that you're not running enough of that rubber off of them. So by the time you get to an end of a hundred lap run, you can still do a burnout and not blow a tire is pretty crazy to see. Yeah. Let's talk about how impressive that was. That was, it was do a full lap burnout. Like that's that's pretty impressive. It's impressive at North Wilkesboro. But you know where I wanna see him do it?
Speaker 2 00:22:45 Is it Talladega Talladega <laugh>, two and a half miles of burnout. He did, he did one at, uh, Richmond too. He did a full lap burn because I, I think, um, the tires flew out on that one though. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Clint Boyer said something on the, on the broadcast of like, man, he's gotten where he is doing these full lap burn. I think he's about to take his thing all the way around. And he did it. That was like, hell yeah. I think dw somebody's like, no, ain't no way that thing's gonna make it. And then boom, he did it. Larson, I, I heard NASCAR got onto him for this, but used to back in the day when he won a race, he would do a burnout and take the steering wheel and hold it out the uh, window. Yeah. And that was like a big thing.
Speaker 2 00:23:21 But I heard NASCAR wasn't too, uh, thrilled about that. So he had to ease off that. I don't know why NASCAR hates when cool shit happens. So I feel like that's the most badass thing ever to do this wild ass burnout while you're holding the steering wheel outside the car. Like what's that? What's more badass looking than that? Yeah, that's pretty great. Yeah, he just needs an old school Dale Jr. And grab the damn steering column and just turn it on his own. That happened to, I don't know if you've ever seen that clip. Oh yeah. Hell yeah. I saw, I saw a dude comment the other day. He put the video, he's like, Dale Jr deserves to be in the hall of fame just cuz of this right here. And then Junior trying to turn his car with no steering wheel <laugh>. I just can't imagine how hard that would be to grab that thing and try to actually force it.
Speaker 2 00:23:59 Turn. Dude, that thing would've turn in to rip his glove and hang everything just right up. Just twisted it right up in there. Just twist it, tee it up, twist it, tee it up. God dang. But yeah, great. Uh, great into racing all all things all around considered uh, I think one of my favorite moments for sure is the, uh, the Michael McDowell, Ty Gibbs incident of they're coming in during the, uh, they're getting a fight at the local Baptist Church. <laugh>. I can't wait. I wanna see that fight. You got Michael McDowell's 45 fit, well I don't know how old he is. Somewhere in the, probably like 44 something. He's probably in his forties. I think Harvest's the oldest driver. So I think he's probably like second or he's gotta be second or third and he's just, I if they got in a fight, just imagine little tiny tie Gibbs over here.
Speaker 2 00:24:40 And Michael McDowell, who's, he's a big, he's a big guy. He's a big dude. Yeah, he's a lot stouter. I mean, Ty Gibbs is probably about as skinny as this little beer can right here. He could barely fucking hold his own. Ty Gibbs ain't much bigger than a squirrel. Ain't much bigger than sel be honest. Tiny little squirrel boy <laugh> and uh, <laugh>. Tiny squirrel boy. Tiny little squirrel boy. Holy, holy shit. So they're going down into turn four. Ty Gibbs is on the inside. And I will say Ty Gibbs was driving aggressive as hell and it's fun to watch naturally. I never have a problem with people driving aggressive. I will never have an issue with that because it makes it way more fun to watch, at least if you're gonna come from third up back up to first. Cuz I mean he had a, he had a great car all day.
Speaker 2 00:25:18 Mm-hmm <affirmative> can't deny that. He gets into turn four and just shoves it down inside. And Michael McDowell's in the middle with uh, the 31 on the outside. Was that Chandler Smith Hailey was that? Oh, Justin. Justin Haley. Thank you. Sorry. 1331 getting a little dyslexic on us here. And he comes down on the inside of that and just causes those other two cars to shoot back at the track. Gets Michael McDowell scrolled up. Honestly, the watching it from the outside, I can see why Michael was so pissed watching it from the outside. He, he died bomb the hell out of him. You can definitely see like, yeah, he made a, he made a bold move going into four. I'm, I'm not faulting anyone for it. It was awesome to watch Crazy stuff went down and it caused one of my favorite moments of the whole weekend.
Speaker 2 00:26:00 So I would rather him do it again. Every single time we rewatched it, he, Michael McDowell is about to get lapped cuz after this contact, his right rear toe length was definitely broke. I mean he was, he he had a fist tail. There was a lot broke on that old thing for sure. The track just crooked and even DW mentions it at the end. He was like, man, I was wondering what they were trying to fix that car up for down there on Pit road. Like that's obviously not gonna win. What are y'all doing? He gets back out on the track and as soon as Ty Gibbs who is in the lead comes around back into turn four again is my favorite part. Michael McDowell sees him coming. And keep in mind too, I have a bet on Josh Barry to win this race. I was just, I was gonna say that like this move won Caleb money.
Speaker 2 00:26:42 It did Josh Barry, I had money on it plus 400. I put down a, I put down a couple bucks for him to win the open race. I had money on him and Ryan Priest and Ryan Priest is just not doing that great. I figure he's probably not winning. Josh Barry is sitting there running second all damn day in this open race. Gets down to that moment. Michael McDowell shoves tie GIS to the inside wall in retaliation, which causes them both to wash back up the track. And who should come in the first place is Josh Berry right there. Sticks right over lead the whole time. And I'll even give it to Michael McDowell. He got him out of the lead but didn't reckon him. He still finished second. He's still advanced. McDowell got his point across, didn't screw anything up. He altered the finish of the race in a slight, slight little way and won me money doing it.
Speaker 2 00:27:29 Uh, and Josh Perry just goes on to lead every, every last. You're have to let him borrow that money when he gets that $50,000. Denny Hammond fine for altering the end of a race. All right. He can have five. I'll keep the other five <laugh>. I didn't win much man. I don't think it's gonna fix your right rear toe linkage <laugh>, he uh, my favorite part of all of that, I, I didn't see this till this morning. Josh Barry, it does. Like, it's not the interview he did on tv, like we saw that one, but he did an interview with like, I guess radio or whatever and uh, he had no idea that the, that the uh, 34 and the 54 like had a thing going on. He was like, he was just driving and like, what the fuck is the 34 doing <laugh>? I'm like, what the hell?
Speaker 2 00:28:05 And he had no clue until way later he heard about it. Like he had no clue and he just was confused as hell. He is like, damn, 34 just went down and was like giving him the business for no reason. <laugh>. But then he, then he, then he figures it out. But I thought that was funny that Josh Barry just was, had no clue. That is hilarious. And then, uh, the other story that you told me last night of McDell saying like, I wasn't trying to put him into the inside wall. My intention was just to get in his way and make him pass me on the outside outside. So it cost him a little bit of time, but I'm not trying to wreck him. Just trying to piss him off. Like he smart man, pissed off. I love that. But he's smart van. Little son of a bitch kept going to the inside and he's like, if you want to go low buddy, we'll go low.
Speaker 2 00:28:42 <laugh> just kept coming all the way until they were down in there. It was a great, like he said, it was a great little retaliation. It was awesome. Mess anything up. I mean it was, it was a perfect retaliation in my opinion. And it's the all-star race who gives a damn, let's have drivers fighting. Let's have 'em reckon each other and do it stupid. I wish they'd raffle on the track. Damn. Front stretch. Right on, right on the finish line. God dang. He could probably pick, tie up and throw 'em over the catch fence to the fans. They'll take care of 'em for sure. I mean, squirrel squirrels don't weigh that much though. They don't man, you could definitely throw 'em over that fast. We should get a meme with a little squirrel head on a I can do <laugh>. That'd be incredible. <laugh> post I raise Roddy eraser. Little squirrel boys said that's funny. Hey. Much bigger to squirrel. That is so funny. Little tiny squirrel. Boy, I was gonna bring this up too. I kind of hinted on it last week just a little bit. But my family has, like I said, always been how old arrested. How old is this dude in real life? He's 12. 19. 12. He's 12. He's 12. Hey Barry, you're gonna say nine <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:29:40 I seriously thought you were gonna say no. No man. He's like maybe 18, 19 years old if he's 20. I'd be surprised. He's a Young's idea. How old gives this Yeah, he can't drink a beer though. I know that <laugh> definitely not. He's definitely, we can't drinking milk, getting his Xfinity serious championship. But I was gonna say like my family has always been into racing, you know, for sure. I don't know if, like I said, I don't know if it's cuz this podcast or NASCAR is just back or what, but I got Lindsay, my sister, Megan dad, everybody is texting me all at one time about this race and I just wanna put it out there. I love it. People are paying attention and loving nascar. Heck yeah. We had Scott, our tour manager, Derek. Oh we got that whole Josh our drummer, he was, they were all texting us and it just makes it z that much more fun because you know that everybody that you're close to is getting more into this.
Speaker 2 00:30:32 And they look to Dawson and me and like, yeah, they're like, I know these guys love this, so I wanna share it with 'em. And that's that's awesome. Fired up dude. They they, they all like, I forgot about all them texting too. Like I named off like six or seven people that texted me like at once yesterday about, about like what was going on. I was like, damn, that's just cool. You know? That was a cool thing. Josh is the guy that we were talking about last week who is from Wiltz County, born and raised in Wilkesboro, which was like, knew the people used to on the track before the Smiths got it. All that like mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah, he was sending us articles, we were teaching him things about racing. Like he, he's like, I've learned more about racing. He's like, Tex, he said he was t but he, like, I've learned more about racing since being out with the trick crew than I had ever had in my whole life.
Speaker 2 00:31:11 You know, growing up right next to that track and love that I, I don't, I feel like it's just cuz like me and you make it so fun and like getting into it so hardcore it's like almost contagious for those guys. I mean we're in a tour bus with 'em, 12 of 'em. It's like they all give a shit now. Like, and they all text us about it for sure. And I, I was even telling Dawson that the other day, it's one of the biggest benefits of the NASCAR season being so long is that the touring season almost is exactly the same as the NASCAR season. Oh yeah. Every weekend that we're out we have a either a truck race or a Xfinity race on, on a Friday or Saturday and then usually we're home for 'em sometimes we're still on the road, but we always have a cup race coming up too and there's just constantly something to watch.
Speaker 2 00:31:52 Yeah. And a lot of times it happens in the middle of the day when we have nothing to do anyway. So we just sit down and we'll watch and everybody's always, everybody has said like, man, it just makes it that much more exciting to watch these races with somebody that's so passionate about it. So you can ask them questions and they love answering. Yeah. And we just have a good time watching it. And that's like what we bring to this podcast is like that. Like fucking hell Yeah. Baby North Wilkesboro, you know, it's like for sure that's just like what I was like yesterday, dude. Like I was so just fired up like North Wilkesboro. We talked about it, we talked about North Wilkesboro last week more than anything else. Like, I mean dude, we just, every conversation me and Caleb were having like, it also felt like I said Josh is from there, but dude it is just north wilkesboro nonstop and like cannot way watching with us too.
Speaker 2 00:32:38 Yeah. I forgot about that. The stagehands are asking about, we, we were sitting over there watching a little bit, just watching the uh, the uh, heat races going on on Saturday and we had two or three stagehands just gathered around and we were all talking. They, that one dude knew his shit too. Oh he he knew a lot. He was a racing dude for sure. Yeah. He was talking about going to dirt tracks, watching the four tens and dude, he, his his dad like raced in like the thirties and forties or something, sixties, whatever. He showed us those pictures. That was super cool. He's like racing like na old NASCAR guys thirties, forties and sixties. Man that's a pretty, that's a pretty widespread had a hell of a career <laugh> a career race racing in the 1930s when I, that man was one of the original NASCAR guys he was running man.
Speaker 2 00:33:15 Yeah. Was that's, that's way too far back. Like a little far. That wasn't that far back, but I've already said it so I'm just gonna roll with it. Oh man. I was like, in my mind I was saying like sixties but thirties came out for some reason. The only reason he was driving in circles is cuz he had nowhere else to go. There weren't any roads <laugh>. Oh man. That's like that that you saying. That reminds me Model t racing outta this is, this is completely outta nowhere. But you saying had driving in circles had nowhere to go. We went to Dawsonville last year and we're talking to all the guys, you know, they're telling us all these old stories and they're talking about when Bill won the title first ever time and they're just riding around, drinking beer, riding around the square, all of them in the, there's like a cop sitting there like a sheriff and he is like, are y'all gonna stop anytime soon?
Speaker 2 00:33:57 He's like, hell no. Bill just won a title. We can keep going. I bet you that was Randy still riding around <laugh> Probably. So that was Randy for sure. Dude, that, that shit is so funny. He is like, hell no we ain't stopping Bill just won a title. Heck yeah man. And they're just drinking beer riding in circles dude. Yeah. Riding a square. It is a pipe dream of mine. Bucket list item for me to be in Dawsonville one day after Chase Elliot wins a race. I wanna see it. I would've loved to have been there for the uh, championship win when he gets off the dang plane and Blaney comes out and he says to him now guys, I think Chase has had a little bit of fun. He's gonna get straight off this plane and go right into the car. He's probably not gonna hang around for too long.
Speaker 2 00:34:37 We just need to get him from point A to point B <laugh> just warning everybody like Chase has been drinking and our guitar player Wendell, he lives in Dawsonville. So he was there and watched that all go down. Yeah. And he just said it was one of the funniest things he's ever seen. Just Chase getting off there he is. Got a beer in both pockets and won in each hand. I think that was after his very first win, wasn't it? That was when they was that after the first win or was that after the championship win? I wanna say it was after the championship win. He came home and flew home. Oh, I I thought it was his first win. I don't know. I thought it was his first win either way. It's still a great story. Yeah, it was. It was hilarious to hear it.
Speaker 2 00:35:11 <laugh> <laugh>. We uh, but yeah, all that to say man, like people are seem to be invested with NASCAR and Lindsay, she was talking to me yesterday, she, her granddad called her about the race and he was like, that's awesome. He was like, and they're, and they're racing people too. Like her granddad and her parents. Like they used to go to races when they were kids and I went and ate supper with them a couple weeks ago and like we were talking about going to Rome Speedway, he was like, people are complaining that the wrong speedways tickets are expensive. He was like, I'd gladly pay 35 bucks to go watch 'em sprint cars around wrong speedway. You know, like yeah $35 ain't much. But like that is, that is just, I don't know, it makes me happy. Like, just like the whole deal makes me happy with just people calling us and contacting us and our family and everybody watching racing.
Speaker 2 00:35:55 Like it's super cool to me. You're building a community. That's what it's about, man. Building a community. Straight up man we got a NASCAR community that loves beer drinking, we need a NASCAR town hall in that community. We were going that's a draft tap on the outside that never runs out of beer. <laugh>. That's exactly right. <laugh>, we'll pull that in the trailer. The mobile beer trailer y'all are talking about. Dude, I'd love to, I'd love to build that. We, me and Lindsay, we were going down the road just coming back from the beach and we had the race on and Lindsay just looked at me, looks at me, she's like, I really like racing <laugh>. I was like, hell yeah. Like that's just cool as hell. I can, I can hear Lindsay saying that right now. I really like racing. Yeah dude. And like it kind of started with her just like from the paint schemes and stuff and now she's like knows her, knows her shit.
Speaker 2 00:36:36 Like we talk about racing, like my favorite part about that's cool as hell to me. So Lindsay Dawson's girlfriend, my favorite part about the way that she talks about racing is the way that she describes each series cuz her, she has a name for each one. <laugh> the Cup series Series is the big Boys Boys. The Xfinity series is the Little Boys <laugh> and the truck series is the toddlers. Yeah. <laugh> She Area. And that is how she keeps up with it. She nails it. It is so damn funny talking about it. Yeah. And I'll hear Dawson talking on the phone with her and he'll be talking about a race and I can tell like there was a question in there cause I can't hear her and he'll be like, yeah Alman, uh, AJ Alman Dinger did this and blah blah blah blah blah. And he is like, yeah and the little boys and I immediately know he's talking about the Xfinity series and that's the best part about it is it's called the Xfinity Series.
Speaker 2 00:37:21 Dawson calls it the Bush series still <laugh> and his girlfriend calls it the Little Boys <laugh>. There is so many different names for every cu every series of NASCAR race and going on in our house. I can barely keep up with it, but it's so funny if you, we, we talked about this on the very first podcast I said the Bush series. It's like, that's where I, I get people that ask me questions. They're like, okay, so is the Bush series the big one or is the Xfinity series this? And I'm like, no, no, no, that's the same series. Sorry. Like I I'm screwing you up by calling it through old school names, you know? Yeah. Like that's why we were talking like on the first episode or whatever. It's like fuck it. I'm just gonna say Bush series. That's just is what it, that's what rage in my mind like the Xfinity series that just, it doesn't feel weird.
Speaker 2 00:38:03 It just is like, it's not the first thing that I think of when I think of the Bush series. It just boom Bush series. There it is. And that's so funny cuz that's the only way that this series has ever been named for me. It's never been the nationwide series Nationwide. Ok. No, it was, it was, it was Xfinity series when I got into NASCAR was, okay, so in your mind it's just boom, Xfinity. Yeah. You know, it just makes sense if it changes, I'm probably gonna still call it but the Xfinity series. Exactly. It's so nice. Now The Craft Craftsman came back on the truck series and it went to, uh, like gander, uh, camping World Gander. It was, it was a camping world for a bit then it was Gander RV and Outdoors, Marcus Lemons, he, all those things that he owns that changed names there.
Speaker 2 00:38:40 All those old heads and old, everybody's still caught it. The Craftsman Truck series. And then this year Craftsman like came back on and they're like the lead sponsor, whatever. But I was telling Caleb, I was like, damn, we just needed, all we need is Bush and old and a dude up there ripping darts, Winston cigarettes and we would have it fucking back maybe. Yeah, we're at Wil. I was like, we they should at least let 'em do it for the All Star race. Like Yeah, <laugh>, we were talking about victory lanes, like we just wanna see trophy girls and, and and the hat dancing and all that. People just ripping darts Winston cigarettes up there. Like let's just go all in. Yeah. And we got Kyle Larson eating a bowl full of chicken. Tyson, Tyson go into town. I asked Josh about that. That was like a Tyson plant, something Tyson's like a big deal in that area.
Speaker 2 00:39:19 And so they sponsored the last race that was at North Wilkesboro. So they sponsored this one and yeah, they had a big old bowl of fried Tyson chicken up in Victory Lane and Larson was just eating the hell out of it. I was like, I like when sponsors do stuff like that. Heck yeah. Why would you if you're Tyson chicken, why would you not have a bowl of fried chicken up on there? Shit. Yeah. And I don't know if they had any dipping sauce. I think he just flicked the oil cap like up and started dipping it down in the oil pan. <laugh>. Hey, I said this morning I was like, man, I need some honey mustard <laugh>. Oh man, he's got a million dollars now. He can afford to buy a couple bottles. He can buy money mustard. He probably has a big old bowl of Chick-Fil-A sauce coming his way too.
Speaker 2 00:39:54 Probably, probably premium, but man, what, what a great weekend like of racing. I loved it. I know Caleb loved. Oh, I loved every second. It, I, I I can't stand eighties and nineties. Nascar. I'm a candy. I'm a candy. But I love watching that know. But it is what it, it's flat race, but it's what? It's <laugh>. Oh man, man. And uh, so bets do we hit those at all? Uh, I mean we hit it. We, I think we've talked about it a little bit. Yeah. You you definitely won the weekend for sure. Yeah. I hit, you know, Mr. Short track style I hit, uh, got Larson, Caleb would've put money on Larson, but the time he got there, he was only like plus 180 or something. It wasn't worth it. I got Larson at like, plus like three 40, which was great. Yeah. So I got money on Larson for the trucks and I was like, I'm just doing this cause I feel like he has the most experience of a war ass out racetrack kind of thing.
Speaker 2 00:40:41 I was ended up being right, so I was like, hell yeah. Did that. I had a little parlay that was hitting all the way to the end when Zane Smith got in that stupid wreck. Yep. I had a par I was gonna hit, I made two truck bets. I was this close to going a hundred percent on them, but that was that. The Zane Smith deal messed me up. I had Zane beating someone. He had the second best truck all day. He was beating him when he got put in the back. Four shoes, hand grenades and sports bets that don't hit <laugh>. Yeah, <laugh>. And uh, and then the cup race. I, I only picked Larson to win. I didn't usually I pick a couple different winners, kind of spread it out. Just picked Larson to win. Did that. And the one that I'm most blown away by, we both put it in, we thought Denny Hamlin top three was a lock.
Speaker 2 00:41:22 Oh. Like, ah, like he's a war out. I mean the fuck is up den he. Yeah. Did he, what the fuck is that <laugh>? What the fuck is up Denny? I I, I can tell you what is not up his lap, his uh, his lap times and his po and his position in the race. <laugh> both of those. Yeah, it is right back there. I don't know what happened, dude, that, that is Denny's race right there. <laugh>. I don't know what happened. My man, my man was running second Daniel. This was when Larson was shitting the bed at the beginning of the race. <laugh>. But he is beating the back bumper off Suarez. I was like, dude, Hammond's a locked for this. Like, I, at this point, I'm like, we're not gonna make money on Larson. We're gonna make money on Denny, you know, top three.
Speaker 2 00:42:03 And then man, I, whatever the hell they did to Larson's car, they took it the hell outta Denny's car. Cuz he went from second to fucking 12th and just ran there. I was like, Jesus Christ dude. They put, put fucking parachutes on the back of the 11 car. I don't know what the fuck was going on. They might have, they put like an extra inch on the spoiler or something, something. But dude, that one, that one really blew me away that it didn't work, but whatever. And I hit a parlay, I'd have to look it up exactly which one I hit, but I hit a parlay that was like the biggest odded parlay the, or the most unlikely one to happen. And f some bitch hit. And I was like, damn, this is, I was fired up yesterday. That's funny cuz that's the exact same thing that happened to me.
Speaker 2 00:42:41 I put a bet down for Barry and he ended up winning that, that open race like we talked about. Yeah. Kale didn't do bad by no means. And so that win gave me an extra little bit of money. I was like, ah, there's like a, the DraftKings gave me a special parlay boost, like you can pick any sport, uh, pick a parlay going on and we'll give you an extra 25% if you hit it. And so I was like, all right, cool. I'll just go ahead and make another, so, uh, make another head-to-head parlay. So I picked like Chase Elliot to beat somebody. I can't remember who, dude, your bet was plus 1000 that I told you I was post worthy. It was like plus 1085 or something like that, dude that is post worthy. And I had three different picks and all three of 'em hit and I was like, hell yeah.
Speaker 2 00:43:21 All right. Cool. Ended up basically breaking even for the week cuz I, I placed a lot, way too many bets. <laugh>, I went a little bit overboard and so I ended up losing a little bit of money, but it wasn't much. I that one parlay hitting last minute, putting it in right before the race even happened. Yeah, great call. Got lucky. It was great. I mean plus 1000, that's a phenomenal one. I I I was my, the, that crazy one I hit on the way back from Indiana was plus 1400. So Yeah, I feel like if that was cool, if you're hitting a thousand or over, like that's some crazy bad no thousand crazy shit this week we got the Coke 600 coming up. I can't freaking wait. Yeah. God dang. I love the Coke 600. I have the same feelings that Caleb just expressed there.
Speaker 2 00:44:04 <laugh>, you made a great point yesterday. It's about like why there's some sometimes like random guys you wouldn't normally see winning because it is 600 mile long race. Mm-hmm hmm. <affirmative>. And that's, that was, that's very true. Like there are guys do sneak up and like boom snag one. You do have your guys like Denny Hamlin and a couple of those guys that, you know, Truex, Truex won it. I think Larson, he, he has he won one or was it just last year that he got super damn close? He led like every damn lap last year and got wrecked by fucking Austin. I, I couldn't remember. I thought he might have won one at some point, but I don't think Larson's got a Coke 600. I don't think. Dang. Well I got 600 Cokes I'll give him if he ends up winning them <laugh>, but Yeah, I know, I, that's one thing I was talking to Dawson about is before we got here, it's like, you know, normally your races nowadays are starting to shorten em up a lot.
Speaker 2 00:44:49 Like you have like a 400 mile or a 400 lap race, then you have your, your 500 s like your, your Talladega is your Daytona and a couple other, uh, like Martinsville does 500 laps. But then you end up with the Coke 600 and it's just, it's a long event. It takes forever and I love every bit about it. Four, four stage. You can earn more points four stages if you get it. Yeah, for sure. And it's each, each stage is a hundred laps apiece. Just I don't that's that's different than every other race. Yeah. So two listeners that don't know that. There you go. Yeah. And it's kind of, it's kind of surprising. It's one of the crown jewels in nascar. If you go out there and you can win a Coke 600, it's a huge accolade. It's one of the biggest weekends in racing cuz you got Monaco in the morning, you got the Indy 500 in the middle of the day and you end it with a Coke 600 from 8:00 AM till 8:00 PM you are watching racing.
Speaker 2 00:45:35 It's a great day to cook food, drink beer, and watch racing on Memorial Day Sunday. Woo. Not that every Sunday isn't, but that's Sunday in particular. Actually every Sunday that I've ever been alive for is a great day to cook food, drink beer, and watch tracing. Yeah. Every Sunday. Sorry, I I shouldn't have, I shouldn't specify just to one, but No, I I completely agree <laugh>. But yeah, after the, after 600 miles is done, that is a, it is no longer strictly how well you drive the track. It is how well you drive the track and how well you keep up with your equipment because by the end of 600 miles of racing around Charlotte, especially with the way that the new, the next gen car keeps everybody in a bit more of a path. Super badass. Yeah. It's, it's so much fun. And that's why, like you said, you see some people come out like kinda like a 500, like a Daytona 500.
Speaker 2 00:46:25 You see some people that you would've never thought would run win a race in nascar, especially at such a big event. It, you see like the Austin Dillons get one, you see Jamie McMurray's, Mr. Crown, jewel, he always wins Crown jewel races, Mr. Crown, jewel, Mr. Crown Jewel. But you'll have those kind of guys that'll go out there and skunk 'em on these one on the, they'll just come out there and just surprise you with one because they were able to take care of their shit and get to the end of the race and be up front whenever it happened. And that's tough. Don't one last year couldn't even tell you. Uh, do not remember that big wreck. There's a big wreck all these guys. Oh, Denny Hamlin ended up winning it. He did. Okay. Denny's one of a few of 'em, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 00:47:03 I think it was Denny and uh, it was, uh, Kyle Bus that like came in second or something like that. Oh, okay. We looked it up last night. There was a, uh, oh yes, I think you're right. There was, uh, Larson dominated last year. Got, there was like some weird pitch strategy, whatever was going on. They went into some overtime I think. And then it was an overtime start. The very beginning of the coming back to the Checkers, I mean Talladega style wreck and, and Larson is involved. It's, but Larson and the three car, Austin Dylan. Yeah. We're shuffling around, screwing it up. Big, big wreck. Also wanted to point out, we pointed this out last night. Last year. Chris Buscher flipped over. Oh yeah. Hard wreck at, uh, at the Coke 600 last year. So Coke 600, I don't know, man. 600 miles just brings out the wild side of the NASCAR guys.
Speaker 2 00:47:48 It really does. I mean, you'll, they'll start it off a little bit slower, but coming to the end of it, you really want this win. Yeah. So you've got, you've got 40 exhausted dudes that have been running their tails off all day long. Get to the end of this race. They will do anything to get the, to get the win on this. Yeah. So I'm, I'm very excited, especially with the way the mile and a half tracks have become way, way, way better this year. Yeah. Who you putting money on this week? Woo. Excuse me. Ooh, man, that's a tough one. Honestly. I think it's gonna come down to what the odds look like for me because I'm, I'm gonna be high on Toyotas. I'm gonna be high on Chevys and you're smoking 'em. I'm gonna be high on weed. Weed and you're gonna be high on weed.
Speaker 2 00:48:31 <laugh> smoking them Yoder packs, <laugh> them yos, man. You ever have a Chevrolet rolled up in your hand? <laugh>? Uh, so I think I'm, I mean one you gotta look at Larson. I, that, that's just obvious. There is no, there's no if, ands or buts about it. You have to look at Larson. Hell yeah. I'll have money on Larson just so everybody knows. And I will be the first person to say too, if you see Larson at anything, plus not starting with a one, take it. Because that is the only time you're gonna get that. I guarantee you if they put it out, they'll probably have at like a plus 300 area. I feel like that's my guess. Four or five, I'm guessing 300. And I guarantee you that three hundred's gonna shrink down to plus 180 5 by the end of the week. I just don't see it being any higher.
Speaker 2 00:49:13 So I think he's definitely a lock for like a very early bet. Uh, I don't know other than that. That's a tough one. That is, it's tough. We're gonna put, I'm putting Ham in top three again. I think Truex is gonna be another one that you gotta watch for. He always does good at Charlotte. Um, he's gonna do well and if you want like a dark horse in there, I think a Logano could be uh, could be a high, could be a high finisher. Uh, I'm definitely putting money on Blaney just because I need that. I need that dude to win and so I'm gonna will it into existence. He he needs to win too. I know <laugh>, we all need to win. He needs to win bad. We all need to win in the Ryan Blaney camp. I made a joke to Dawson earlier.
Speaker 2 00:49:48 He was like, man, it must be nice to have the benefit of a win every other week so you don't get so stressed out. We us Blaney fans over here, we're counting that all-star race win because we ain't got nothing else to look at. <laugh> we're ready. And NASCAR almost just dropped the bag on the All-Star race last year in that, with that situation. Like Yeah, that is exactly what I mean when I say they needed this race yesterday was because they almost dropped the ball and screwed Ryan Blaney last year. It was a, it was a, they threw a caution like as the, he was already like past the line. He, he was so far past the line, he put his window net down. Yeah. So he dropped. It was a big orde. It was a big ordeal. He dropped his window net and I mean, if we brought it up, I think we should go into it for sure.
Speaker 2 00:50:30 Uh, they, uh, at the end of the race, like you said, they called a caution. I mean, if he wasn't crossing the line, he was smelling it. I mean it was right there. People were flipping out Yeah. On the internet about this. Like now, like, I don't know what the fuck they were doing. Yeah. And one of the first things you do whenever you win a race, as you drop the window net down so you can pump your arm out the window and be excited and waved all the other drivers, and of course he pops the window net open and in NASCAR you cannot legally have a car on the track with a window net not up. So he pops the window net open, starts taking off down the back stretch and they yell, all right, we're gonna line him up and stack him up and do a green white checker at the end.
Speaker 2 00:51:05 And he is just freaking out because window nets are impossible to attach on the inside of the car. The driver cannot do it by himself. It's, it's requires a shit load of force. You gotta have a big guy pulling down on this thing. They are tight, that's on the outside like when you're on the outside of the car. So he does his best to get it propped up there and I'm having trouble remembering does he, did they let him go down pit road to reset it or did he just get it kind of, he like he held it up there pretty much and did a green white checker and holds the damn window net open. Whoa. Gets all the way around Winsor race. He has the back bar, like the wind net's here has a bar. He has the back bar in this piece is fucking hanging down like this, blowing in the wind.
Speaker 2 00:51:47 But NASCAR didn't say anything cuz NASCAR's the one that screwed him outta this situation anyway, <laugh>. Yeah. So he's like trying to hold it. He does, he's done interviews about it. Like he's, his arm was killing him. Like he was like putting everything he had into it, but all he had was that back bar in there and it's just flapping the wind like this right here. But that's a one. And drivers flipped out about the whole ordeal. Yeah. Like either let him go down on pit road and reset that window net or like, let's call the race one of the two. But it was just a, it was a funny situation, but NASCAR has a history in the All-star race of saying, you know what, this doesn't pay points, so let's just let a couple things slide. They always bring up the, uh, Jeff Gordon and everybody, like tons of people going into turn one at Charlotte back in the day and it started raining, so tons of cars got wrecked out so they just said, screw it, y'all go grab your backup cars and line back up again.
Speaker 2 00:52:33 Well, we don't care. Which is awesome. I I love whenever they do stuff like that because it just adds a lot for the fans. And Jeff Gordon wrecked out, got his backup car and won the race. Yep. Yeah. It's premium. That is cool stuff. Yeah. But anyway, that was off topic, sorry, but I'm, I don't think anything has been on topic all day and I have loved every second of it. <laugh> Hell yeah. Premium. Well definitely putting uh, money on Larson for this week for me. Gonna, I I love doing my little two pick parlays. I'll just look and see what they are. Yeah, I really think a lot of, a lot of this race is gonna be just pick someone you know, can win and just assume they're going to do all right. They got the top fives in there too. I would, I would place a few top fives.
Speaker 2 00:53:11 Those will probably pay out pretty. Alright. Yeah. So we're excited about that. Let's go to hack of the week. Hack of the week. We're gonna do two different ones this week, which is totally fine. We've kind of been doing that. I don't mind it. Everybody's got their own little opinion. We, we have a couple of 'em. Were the same. I wanna your dick ts mine is has nothing to do with NASCAR racing. So this is like just a little extra one. But my hack, my hack of the week is that stupid son of a bitch that ran over and land in Huffman and tried to kill his dad on the spotter stand. Heck yeah. They can all kiss my ass and and theirs as well. If you don't know what we're talking about. I know Dawson has a little bit more detail about that. There was a late models race at Hickory.
Speaker 2 00:53:56 They're racing the late models there and there's two different races. There's like, I think a limited and a pro or like a limited and a super, I don't remember, I know there was a limited race because Landon won that one. So he put the car in Victory Lane in one of them. And the situation was he's going three wide into the corner and I Crumb is, I think these people's last name. I don't know everybody's name super well. So bear with me. Victor Crumb, they're in, they're going three wide. The Annabelle or Anna Beth, whatever she is on the outside, Landon's in the center. They make contact and she slides down on the inside wall, not hits it, nothing, just spins her out. She comes back around the track full throttle and drives into his passenger side door so hard, it rips the cars apart.
Speaker 2 00:54:38 And she is the outside wall and I mean, they can't finish the race. The cars look like you just cut 'em open with a pair of 10 snips. All of that under caution. All that under caution. She full throttles under caution. And then this woman's husband is in the spotter stand spotting for blindside hits Landon's dad knocks him, who spotting for him that spot, spotting for him, knocks him to the ground and starts stomping on him. Wow. So fuck him. Unbelievable. Fuck them. They showed a fuck that. Yeah, the picture of his dad after that. I don't know his dad's first name. Rob. Uh, Rob. Yes. The picture of him after with the this, he had blood running down the side of his everywhere face. I mean he's, that's, that's, there's no need. We all talked about loving fights. I do love a good fight, but not blindside and the guy in the stands and starts stomping on his face when he is on the ground that that's not what we're here for.
Speaker 2 00:55:21 And keep it between the drivers, man. Like wires, spotter's, getting in fights just doesn't make sense to me. I don't mean, yeah, you can yell at each other all you want and if you wanna get into a scrap, get into a scrap. But don't Bli side hit somebody that, that's just, that's even, that's that is like absolutely the way Lifetime ban at at lifetime ban. Oh, I just think they should just pull them outta any, anybody that's even in the area should just tell them, dad don't even bother showing up. That's what, that's how you're gonna, that's lifetime Banham. Get outta here. That's Lifetime Banham. Lifetime Banham from everything. Lifetime Ban m from going to Waffle Houses, man. They're definitely gonna cause some trouble in there for sure. I do love a good waffle house. I do too, but I wouldn't wanna walk into one with the crumbs.
Speaker 2 00:55:56 <laugh> not trying to get, not trying to get my face smashed into one though. They def the crumbs are definitely lame as hell according to what everybody has said on the internet. I don't appreciate, don't know much about 'em. But the hack of the week, fuck that. Caleb's, Caleb's got a good hack of the week too though. Involves NASCAR racing. That, that and this, this hack of the week is hilarious and it's, the reason being is because we've already had a hack of the week for the exact same situation that happened to somebody completely different. We can call this guy, what was it? Uh, chase. Chase Purdy Jr. Chase Purdy Jr. I'm trying to remember what, uh, was it tj, was it, was it Chris Wright that was driving that car? Because it was, it all happened there. You told me it happened very quickly.
Speaker 2 00:56:34 I'm looking up to make sure. Yes. Chris Wright. I had to look it up. Just I wanted to make sure I had Right. Who spots the oh two car before you tell this story? Who? TJ Majors who, I bet they talk about this on DBC today. I can't would be a good one to hear. Door, door bumper, not so clear. Man door bumper's a car right in front of your dog, put the brakes on. So Chase Purdy a few weeks ago, if you'll remember, we gave him the hack of the week award for running into a car after the wreck happened in a different zip code. This exact same situation happened again. You had the whole big wreck happen. I, I think it was Haley Deagan that was up on the wall, hit Dean Thompson and they just put Dean Thompson on the wall big time.
Speaker 2 00:57:11 And so all, he's just sitting there in the outside wall. She's sitting there on the inside lane. There's a wide open middle and so many guys are going through there and all of a sudden here comes the oh two Dude Dodo just had his eyes closed eating a subway footlong too. Dude. He was eating the subway. He the subway footlong. He was eating the subway. And he comes back into this wreck five minutes after it happens and just plows right into him. Just right there on the outside wall hold's car up. Yeah, it just looked, it looked ridiculous. It was another one of those situations of what were you thinking? Like, what were you looking at? And don't give me the excuse if it's hard to see outta these cars and trucks. I know it's hard to see outta these cars and trucks, but you know what people do every day get out of Wreckx and avoid them.
Speaker 2 00:57:54 It's possible. And you've got a spotter yelling in your ear where everything is. I don't know what And TJ Mades is literally one of the most respected legend. Yeah. He's a legend. Legendary spotter. Spotter. Like one of the most respected spotters out there. The spotters have a hall of fame. He's going in it. And I don't understand what happened here, dude. Chris Rot was eating that damn subway. It's hard to see where you're going when you're looking at your subway lap. When foot long in Yeah, that's, it's, it's, it's a hard, tough life out there. $11. $11, $11 foot long <laugh>. Dude, I saw somebody make a meme the other day. It's like, are y'all young? Are y'all old enough to remember $5 foot longs? Everybody's like, yeah, yeah. You know, whatever. <laugh>, you must be old. And then it's like, you must be old, whatever.
Speaker 2 00:58:31 And this lady's like, I just paid 17 bucks for this dog shit sandwich <laugh>. And I didn't even get fries. I didn't even get coke in the drink or Coke. Some chips. I paid 17 bucks. <laugh>. That's hilarious. She hilarious. She just hitting on subway. All that to say Chris Wright though. Yeah. My hack of the week sandwich outta your fucking mouth. Nikki t who's your hack of the week? My hack of the week. Is that squirrely kid you guys talked about? Yeah. Yeah. Gibbs. God dang Tiger Gibbs. That's an incredible hack of the week. Check your phone, uh, sent you a squirrel meme. I saw, saw a sent you a squirrel meme. Let's take a look at this squirrel. We should totally put itty bitty squirrel boy or whatever qui. Oh my goodness. That is incredible. It good squirrel. It'll be a squirrel boy <laugh> that's going up onto the, uh, that's gotta go on the story.
Speaker 2 00:59:15 <laugh>, dude. Oh my God. That's incredible man. I'm really good at the internet guys. We can tell, can we, can we see this? Can the folks see this? We're putting this on Ray's rowdy racing. Yeah, that's definitely gonna go up. That should just be the announcement picture for the, for the episode coming out. Dude, we should call this Holy slowly Itty Beatty squirrel boy. Holy, slowly, itty Beatty squirrel qui. That is the name of the podcast. Heck yeah. That's holy. Slowly Itty Beatty. Squirrel Boy. Thank you Daryl Waltrip for saying that phrase 500,000 times. It made my absolute life to have him back up in the booth. I love Darryl Waltrip. DW the Man. I'm a big fan. It it brought me back big fan. It brought me back. I just wanna say I've had a blast. This has been like my favorite podcast so far. I've had a heck. I know. We're getting close to winding down. Yeah, we are. We're right This weird right? Has been a ball. It has been. Yes. I've enjoyed the hell out of this one. Yeah, I I'm like, I've just been grinning like Apostle meat, green shit all day. <laugh> man. I think I found some of that green shit out in that grass. Both us <laugh> <laugh> guys. I absolutely like love being on this with
Speaker 3 01:00:13 You because it makes me excited about NASCAR and I don't know shit about it.
Speaker 2 01:00:16 Hell, you'll know you'll be an expert by November, dude. I know you'll be texting us in the group chat, but you'll be watching it. Heck guy. I just can't believe that motherfucker just hit that little bitty square boy. That's all bitty square boy. <laugh>. So, oh man. Holy shit, dude. I'm never gonna look at Ty Gibbs the same again. No, never again <laugh>. I'd already didn't look at him in a good light anyway. But now he's the itty bitty squirrel boy and driving the number 54 Joe Gibbs Toyota. It's the monster energy, itty bitty squirrel boy.
Speaker 2 01:00:49 You know, hes boo That is, we have nine buttons and I only hit one of 'em. That's all that matters. That is awesome, dude. That is awesome. Oh man. So yeah, I don't know where we're heading. Uh, we leave where we're coming. Well we're coming back from Louisiana, but we'll be back, be back in plenty of time to watch the 600. We will probably watch the Monaco. I love, we'll watch. I like we'll watch Indie Race too. Yeah, I will be. I'm a big formula one guy. I, I'll admit it. I I don't care that I found him on Netflix. Give me all the shit you want. Dale Tan Hart and uh, <laugh>. I'm gonna be watching Mo I'm gonna be watching the 500 and I'm gonna be watching the 600. I learned how to count yesterday and I learned how to count to 600 cause that's the only number that matters.
Speaker 2 01:01:33 I will be watching the Indy 500 and the Koch 600. We'll be back. We got four shows coming up this week. Super, super busy week. Yeah. Premium. But we're excited for it. Very excited. Yeah. Very, very stoked up. Thank y'all. Randy Adams. I know you're listening. We love you Randy. A shout out. We do love you Randy. I got you. I know you're listening to this. I'll give you the announcement now. I have your Augusta tickets. Ready my man. So what a guy. We'll see you in Augusta. Augusta, Georgia Premium. Heck yeah. My name name is Dawson Edwards. Find 'em on Instagram everywhere at Dawson. Instagram, everywhere. Everywhere. Other than oh Instagram. I need to, I need Dawson Edwards music. There you go. That's one. Edward Music. I'm Caleb Conrady. Caleb Con Rowdy would be the handle you're looking for. We got Nicky T over here. Yeah, just
Speaker 3 01:02:17 Follow a raise. Rowdy. You can follow me too. I'm raised Rodney dt. God bless America and God bless you guys.
Speaker 2 01:02:21 Absolut man. Thank y'all for listening. Episode six. Holy, slowly, itty bitty squirrel boy. Oh, trade and paint. Chris Bush's car. Fastenal White car. Beautiful. Next you next week. Ryan Blaney calling it already Camo car. Great. My trade and paint was definitely that 29 car. Thank you. That great point. Great point. Great point. Either way. Either way. That's our trade and paint. That's our podcast. Thank y'all for listening. Y'all are amazing. Thank y Randy. Stay cool. Uh, candy ass man. Come back for us in the comments again. We're looking at you. Please comment again. We're looking for you. We love you. We miss you. Cheers Beers. I love, love y'all. Love you too. Happy
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