Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:03 Welcome to Ray's Rowdy Racing with Caleb Conrady and Dawson Edwards.
Speaker 2 00:00:11 What up everybody? Uh, welcome to the very first ever episode of Ray's Rowdy Racing. My name is Dawson Edwards. My name is Caleb Kahn. Ready, and
Speaker 3 00:00:20 I'm the off-camera producer slash dummy Nicki
Speaker 2 00:00:24 T <laugh>. And Matt Burrell is also, he's in another room. Uh, executive producer. Yeah, he's executive. I mean, honestly, do we even know he is still sitting over there? He is probably gone by now. Yeah. Somewhere. He's smoking weed for sure. More than likely. But anyway, y'all, welcome to it. Uh, first episode we're ever gonna have here. Uh, this is gonna be an entertainment podcast with a NASCAR problem. Uh, we figured we'd go ahead and start off today kind of introducing ourselves, who we are, um, where we're from, how we got into nascar. So you wanna go first? Yeah, I mean, well, I figured we'd start with you, man, since you were the kind of the, the forefather of all NASCAR in this, uh, in this friendship here. But that's it. Uh, yeah. Me and Dawson were both songwriters. Uh, we, uh, currently both work for Travis Trt on his road crew, and of course we've got Nicky t here and kind of the grandfather of Rays rowdy.
Speaker 2 00:01:13 And he, uh, was more than gracious to let us borrow his, uh, podcast studio to start up this whole crazy idea that me and Dawson kind of came up with. So, Dawson, yeah. Let's, let's go ahead and just start with you. Uh, kinda give us a story of where you're from, where your NASCAR obsession started and all that. Yeah. So I'm, uh, name's Dawson Edwards. I'm from Little town called Rom, Georgia. Nicky t loves that place. Yes, it is a phenomenal place. Uh, yeah, so, uh, yeah, been in Nashville eight years now. Yeah. Known Caleb for like seven or six or seven of those years. Some, some, I've drank a lot of beer since then, man, I don't remember. I've known Nicky t I've known you for quite some time before
Speaker 3 00:01:53 I lived here.
Speaker 2 00:01:53 Yeah. Oh. Um, but yeah, got, I've never not been into racing. Like, I don't remember like a time of not being a NASCAR fan, you know, a fan of racing. Uh, my whole, my dad is obsessed with racing. He worked on dirt track cars back home. Um, my mom and grandparents watch racing. They all went to races growing up, you know, they were growing up. I go to races, uh, they brought me to races, obviously, so I've just never, like, not been a NASCAR fan. So, um, I feel like the idea of this whole deal came together like in 2020. Do y'all hear that? Yeah. What is that?
Speaker 3 00:02:32 It's a, it's noise.
Speaker 2 00:02:34 Okay. Just wondering. Uh, yeah. In 2020, Matt, Matt Barrell, he was like, dude, you and Kate, like, he started coming, you know, watching races with his stuff. And it's like, dude, you should like, you should live stream. Y'all watching races. I was like, oh. And the first time he got to watch a race with us too, there's a damn good reason he thought we'd be good at this. Yeah. <laugh>. And, uh, I just don't, I think I was like, ah, dude, live streaming race is probably a terrible idea. I'd probably say something that, oh, without a doubt. Yeah. It just shouldn't be on recorded or whatever. And, uh, yeah, found out about, you know, y'all doing the whole raised rowdy thing with all this new stuff and talked to Berell, talked to Caleb, you know, boom. Here we go. Ray's rowdy racing first. Absolutely. Episode right here.
Speaker 2 00:03:13 Yeah. I mean, watching, I just remember that day that, uh, that Matt came in and watched that we were watching an Xfinity race of all things too. I mean, it was, I can't even remember what race it was, but me and Dawson, we just, when we watched races, we got a lot of debates going on naturally. So yeah, we got in the middle of this race and I'd never met Matt before and we were just sitting in there talking, we were going to town arguing over some of the dumbest stuff. And I know a couple times I was making some shit up just so that way I could rile Dawson <laugh> and it worked hardcore. Yeah. And by the time Matt Barrell left our, uh, left his house from us watching this race, he actually had to ask Dawson, man, I thought you were in Caleb.
Speaker 2 00:03:53 Were like buddies, <laugh>. He thought we absolutely hated each other. Yeah. I mean, we got like this massively heated argument and Braille was like, what the hell? Like, oh yeah, this, this normal. It was a good time. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, like I said, always been a NASCAR fan. Uh, growing up was a fan of like Earnhardt, Mark Martin. And then when they kind of went away, it was, you know, Earnhardt Jr. And Carl Edwards. And uh, it's, you know, now it's, it's Larson, chase, Elliot, Tyler Reddick. I'd say those are like my guys. I cheer for now. Not Kyle Busch. Not Kyle Busch, no. <laugh>. I have, I've been on Kyle Busch's Instagram, you know, back in Kentucky. Did some stuff for Toyota. That was pretty cool. You go, I, I don't hate Kyle Busch as much as I used to. <laugh>. Yeah. He's coming around.
Speaker 2 00:04:36 It's cuz he's a Chevrolet. He's a Chevy. He's in a Chevy now. So it's like I get down with that in the eight also. We love, we love that I think. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, but now, I mean, your favorite driver though, Kyle Larson for sure. Yeah. Kyle Larson is my dude. He's, he's, he's my main dude. <laugh>. He's my dad. Yeah. Damn. We're like the same age I think. Yeah. But he has so much more money than you. He does. He's a young dad. He does have a lot more money than me. He has more the money. All of us put together. Let's put that. Yeah. Uh, easily. And I mean that's, that's really not saying much. That's not saying, but it is a true statement. <laugh>. But yeah, that's, you know, that's my story. And uh, I introduced Caleb to NASCAR in probably like 2017.
Speaker 2 00:05:16 2017. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Then you can give him your, uh, rundown now. Yeah, yeah. Uh, so like we said, my name's Caleb Conty and I am from a tiny little town in Texas called WinDor. Right. South Oklahoma. We always joke, we're so close to dang Oklahoma, you can feel the wind blow cause they suck so much. So that's about where we're from. Good. And uh, hey, it's, if any Oklahomans out there, feel free to fire back. We can have a good old riled up debate about it. <laugh>. Uh, but anyway, yeah, I grew up there. Dairy farming, uh, doing the dang thing out there in the sun. It's hot all the time. And honestly we spent so much time doing that. I really didn't get into very many sports. Knew about football, watched plenty of it. Cowboys a and m all that. Wasn't the craziest fan of anything though, can't say. And then moved up to Nashville in 2012. Been here about 10 years now, songwriting. Uh, and in about 2016 I at this crazy s o b. And
Speaker 3 00:06:12 How old were you then? Like 18 and a half.
Speaker 2 00:06:13 Pretty, pretty much, actually not far from it. I think you were 19, maybe 20 when we met. I mean, he couldn't listen, I couldn't buy beer so I was buying all the beer for us whenever we went anywhere cuz I was just over 21.
Speaker 3 00:06:25 Not that he was drinking any of the beer. He was just looking
Speaker 2 00:06:27 At it. Yeah. Just, I love looking at beer. Looking at beer. Yeah. <laugh>. But either way, uh, we, uh, we got to hanging out a little bit after one song writing session we had. And um, whenever I had kind of a lot of stuff going on back in 2017 and I just kind of needed somewhere to be, so Dawson was more than gracious to allow me to come home with him plenty of times. Too. Little old Rome, Georgia. Georgia. It was a great little place. And the very, one of the very first times we went, he was like, dude, you gotta watch a NASCAR race. And I'd never watched much of it before. Really enjoyed the idea of it. So I was just like, screw it. He's real into it. Maybe he can teach me something about it. Whatever. It's very first race I watched.
Speaker 2 00:07:08 It's one of the most famous races. We just talked about it this morning. You see it all over Twitter. It was the 2017 Brickyard 400. Yep. And it was one of the wildest races. Million happened. Million precautions. Yeah, absolutely. That was, that was still when they had the uh, the three max overtime rules too. Oh yeah. And somehow they managed to finish this on the third overtime. Dang. I had to work at UPS at 10. Yeah. We were still working at UPS back then. Yeah. I had to be home by 10:00 PM And we're in Rome this race at like seven. Yeah. We're in Rome like seven. Gotta be at work at like, you know, 10, 11, 12, whatever it was. Yeah. And so I am like, dude, I gotta, I gotta go but this race is going and going and I'm like, I'm into it by this point.
Speaker 2 00:07:46 I'm fired the hell up. And you can't watch a race with this man without getting fired the hell up. Yeah. So we're going to town watching this race and last restart happens. Jimmy Johnson's leading his blowing an ninja engine, blows up taking the lead. Smoke is everywhere. Casey Kane comes around to that overtime line and Denny Hamlin gets spun into the wall and barely makes it across that overtime line. But he does it. Casey Kane ends up getting the win. And as we will do plenty of times, I brought the, uh, the good old winning die cast from that day. Cause we tried to collect as many of this as we can. So this was the die cast of the very first race I'd ever watched. And it's all started there ever since then. Been a huge NASCAR fan. Haven't missed a Sunday since. How
Speaker 3 00:08:27 Many dollars do those cars
Speaker 2 00:08:28 Cost? Uh, about a hundred depending, yeah. 60 to 100 depending on where you find 'em. Yeah, I'd say a hundreds, probably the average. Yeah. I have, uh, so does Caleb two, many of them thousands of dollars in die cast sheet metal, you know, all the weird NASCAR stuff that I've had over the years, but, oh yeah. But, uh, but yeah, so got into nascar, uh, and didn't really know who to cheer for, so I just kind of picked the one guy that was winning a lot, lot that season. And the next season it was Martin Truk. He ended up going on and winning that championship that year. So I was like, ah, I gotta, I gotta cheer for the guy. Why not? He was the very first driver I ever cheered for. And then eventually I got to find out about Ryan Blaney and he has definitely become my number one driver.
Speaker 2 00:09:09 Uh, found out he, me and him have a lot of shared interests and honestly, this man looks and very much acts just like my younger brother. And it cracks me up. Cardinal Sin Carson, Cardinal Sin Carson <laugh>. And so we, uh, we always call him Ryan Blaney. So it's just became a, a big thing. And see I became a fan of him and just been watching racing like crazy ever since. Learned a lot from Dawson and taught myself a bunch. And here we are, still loving it to this day. We're raised rowdy podcast called about nascar. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 00:09:37 So, um, what, how many races have each of you guys been to?
Speaker 2 00:09:42 Wow. Um, you're a lot more than I am. Yeah. Grow growing up. So, um, my dad, he, I can't remember the how old I was, but he took me to Tall Dega for the first time when I was a kid. You know, I'm talking probably 4, 3 4, something like that. I mean, I could walk, you know, talk stuff like that. But <laugh>, there's a picture of me, I'm like, you know, thumbs it up. Got like a, I think I'm wearing like a Martin Martin hat, like a Earnhardt Jr. Shirt, you know, number eight, um, Talladega is what I consider my home track because that was only an hour and 15 minutes away from home. And, uh, people always associate like going to Atlanta as my home track. But I just went to Atlanta for the first time a couple weeks ago. It's like two hours away from my hometown.
Speaker 2 00:10:23 So Talladega is way closer. And growing up, I mean, we went a ton, you know, there was a few years we went to both races, you know, we went a ton to a ton of, uh, uh, like Bush races, went to arc races, truck races, cup race, you know, all the stuff. And uh, and then since as an adult, I've been to, man, I've been to Kentucky, Charlotte, Bristol, Atlanta, Linda, Texas, but not for a race. We watched the, uh, they had the Daytona 500 on the big screen, big Hots there. So I don't know how many total it is, but I mean, I'd say probably 20 or more. I'd say something like that. I, I'm, I'm, I went to my first one with you. We went to Bristol. Uh, I say that was 2018 and whenever it was Del Jr's retiring. Yeah, Del Jr was that year very last race.
Speaker 2 00:11:11 Somehow. Most of my major NASCAR moments happened to be like major NASCAR moments. So very first is super popular that I, this man never saw Jimmy Johnson win a race his whole life. Never Jimmy Johnson, the most dominant NASCAR driver of our generation. I never got to watch a single win. So hopefully, maybe that's my point. That's whole life of watching Jimmy Johnson win <laugh>. What's he in the 84 this year? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Just the 84, 82. Hopefully at some point he can manage to squeak one out. I mean my, my hopefuls are not crazy hive, but hopefully I get to see one Jimmy Johnson win in my life. Yeah. But as ac actually going to races, I've been to Bristol twice, once completely by myself. And one day drove there and drove back. Uh, that was a great time. And went to that Talladega once in Nashville once then.
Speaker 2 00:11:53 But I also watched the truck race and the Xfinity Race at Nashville. So all together, seven four cup series races. But So it's been seven total? Yeah, seven total. If you count the truck in, well, I guess if you count Talladega too, it would make make an eight because I'd been to the truck race there too. So probably eight races total, but four, four specific truck, uh, cup series races. Yeah. So we've been, y'all are racing fools. Trying to be Yeah. I'm trying to spend as much of my hard-earned money on it as possible. Yeah, yeah. It's just like, it's so funny to think about. Cause I'm, I didn't think about it till this morning when we were like talking about like, what got you into racing? I was like, I've just, I don't know. I've all, I don't remember not being into racing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:12:30 That's just like, all I know is mm-hmm. <affirmative> racing and you know, I'm, I had a, I had this rug, you know, those circular rugs and I I one of those kindergarten rugs, right? No, no. It was a, or is this an actual, an actual rug? Like my grandma bought it and I had a, I had a room at my grandma's house that was like Del Earnhardt theme. So it's all like black and white, you know, got some red in there. Checkers. Yeah. And the, she buys one of those big carpet, uh, circular. It is oval sized carpet. And you know, it has like, the different, uh, colors, you know, it's like black and white, black and white all the way down. So it's a black and white rug. It fit, put it in the floor, man. And I had masking tape, duct tape. I did it my made my own garage.
Speaker 2 00:13:07 Like I made it my pit road. And like you could run the different size on my, in my mind like the different size rings or the different, the biggest ones. You know, Daytona and Talladega <laugh>, the little bitty one in the middles, you know, Bristol Martinsville, stuff like that. So like, and now I see these guys on YouTube that make those little, uh oh. It's like, stop motion, dude. I was doing all that just before cameras and computers in the, you know, nineties and two thousands. It wasn't just failed to monetize. Yeah. I just didn't monetize them when I was your four year olds didn't have enough, didn't have enough going on. I know yet to know what to do with them. I know. So I had all that. I used to, uh, take die cast cars, like you're holding there and absolutely destroy 'em.
Speaker 2 00:13:43 Put duct tape and electric tape on 'em. Like they had bear bond on 'em. Yeah. Um, I used to beat up like 1 64 die cast with like, I wish you brought that old 48 car. You still have that. Looks like it just went around around in a circle. I smashed it up just so you could see it. Oh. But yeah, I just like, it's crazy. I don't remember not being in the NASCAR and racing and like, you know, like I said, we have a speedway in Rome, Rome Speedway and Dixie Speedways just down the road. I mean, it's just like, grew up there, you know, grew up going to races and all that stuff. So. Absolutely. It's crazy. I just don't remember. I, there's no life that I had without NASCAR in it. Yeah. Just tell me, I'll tell you what, my life was empty before it came, so I totally understand now.
Speaker 2 00:14:27 I have something to do on Sundays, you know? Yeah. It's Sundays waiting for the Cowboys to lose. Like, as a, as an adult man, it's like, I like, don't get wrong, I look forward to races when I was a kid. But like Sundays now, like we get off work and it's just like the most, like, I feel like a kid, my mom, I'm just like pumped up. Like we're buying some food, buying some beard like yesterday, dude, I'm just like flipping out. Like once some money Larson won, just like, man, it makes me just like, forget about the world. It was a great day to be alive. You might say. I would, I would say that <laugh>, somebody might say that somebody would, probably the guy that signs the paychecks. Exactly. The guy that funds the beer and the food every Sunday. <laugh>. But yeah, so we're taking, we're trying to take this big love in NASCAR that we have, uh, and translate it into just either educating people, entertaining people, if there's anything people wanted to know.
Speaker 2 00:15:14 Yeah. We just want to, we don't wanna be able to share that. Cuz Dawson shared that with me and it really has been a big major part of my life since then. And I'd love to do that for other people and make other people be such as, as big a fan. So that's kind of what we want to do, is talk about what happened last week. We want to talk about where we're going, the track that we're going to next week. Give people a little bit of an idea about what they're gonna be seeing. Cause I know a lot of our, a lot of our listeners may not have ever seen a NASCAR race before, may not have a full understanding of what goes on during a race. And so if we can even show someone a little bit of light on that and really show them what's going on, what they're watching, how they're supposed to enjoy it, and not just thinking that it's cars turning left, man.
Speaker 2 00:15:54 That's exactly what we're aiming for. Yeah. That, and we'll talk a little bit about Betton because that's definitely something me and Dawson like to do is throw some bets down on these races. We're not professional betters, but we have, by no means I've lost, but great luck this year ass. The last two weeks. <laugh> I haven't lost yet, which is, yeah. I probably screwed that up by saying that. You did. You just did. And that's pretty good behind you, man. You can't knock on nothing right here. Yeah. So heck yeah. Uh, I didn't actually start doing any NASCAR betting till the Daytona 500 of this year. Asked Caleb a couple questions, saw some things on Twitter, and I was like, dude, I can do this. Cause I, I know, I know, you know enough to know what drivers are what and doing what, and man, I'm up.
Speaker 2 00:16:29 Yeah. I'm way up. It's great. Yeah. So you'll hear a little bit about that here later. Uh, you'll get a lot of stories from us about our personal experiences, uh, either at races or what we did this past weekend on the road, what we did. Yeah. We tra we travel pretty much every single weekend of our lives, so mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. Thursday. Like, we usually leave Thursday night, come home Sunday mornings, which is perfect. Yeah, we have, we have a crazy schedule. We're gonna cut this on Mondays, uh, in the morning, so Yeah. It fits imperfect. Yeah. It's, it's, we're just exhausted. But yeah, you'll maybe we'll even get some guests in at some point. Some of our buddies in the NASCAR world, somebody we have, we have, you know, we have tons of songwriter friends, uh, that maybe don't love nascar, but tons of songwriter friends that have interesting lives.
Speaker 2 00:17:11 We have tons of friends that are in the NASCAR world nowadays, you know, and I just met, uh, I wrote with Grant Gilbert today. Do you know him? Yeah, yeah. He's a big NASCAR guy. Oh, is he? I mean, <laugh> dude loves Blaney's from Texas. I was like, dude, you got Caleb, the guy that I showed him the logo, man, my guy come on now was like, I was like, this guy right here, he's uh, like an hour and a half from you, he said, but, oh really? Yeah. So, you know, it's, it's, it's a thing. It's, I feel like it's bec I feel like NASCAR is becoming more popular. It is. It really, I really do like absolutely. People, people want to talk some stuff on about, you know, this, that and the other. But like outta the 10 races, I think like the stance have looked great. Oh yeah. In Atlanta this year, Atlanta, man, they can't sell tickets in Atlanta ever went to Atlanta, you know, the other couple weeks ago mm-hmm. <affirmative> biggest crowd they've had there in years. It was like, dude, this is good to see. It's good. It's good to have traffic and stuff like that at a race. Like Yeah. Sucks to be in it, but if you have traffic with the means, there's people there. Yes, absolutely. And I feel like it definitely is on the upswing of stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:18:08 And I mean, everything's more fun with more people there, you know.
Speaker 2 00:18:11 Totally. Oh yeah. To extent I guess. But with <laugh> I can think of a couple activities. Yeah. <laugh>. Oh man. But anyway, so just to keep this thing moving on, uh, we're gonna get kind of into the meat and bones of this thing. So first off, we're gonna start off talking about Martinsville Great racetrack, the paperclip, bringing it back. We had very low expectations for this weekend based off of last year's race this next year. But according to Denny Hamlin this week, this race was terrible. Oh man. Worse than last year. Terrible race yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. I guess, I guess it's a little different if you're looking out the windshield than looking at the sta looking out from the stands, but man, I saw what I consider to be a really, really improved great short track race this weekend. Yeah. I enjoyed the heck out of it. There was everything that you could have asked for from a short track race, was there? Uh, comers and goers. Yeah. Comers and goers. I wish there would've been more tire wear with my, my biggest thing would've been more, more, more tire wear and no stage breaks. Man. We would've had some hellacious racing going on, man. Hey man, my fingers are crossed. We've got stage breaks out at the road courses and I'm hoping that that trend continues into other things. I don't
Speaker 3 00:19:20 Know any of what you're
Speaker 2 00:19:21 Talking about. Oh, oh heck yeah. Yeah. All right. We do a little educating here. So Yeah. So the tire, tire fall off, tire wear. Yep. Just means like we, we would want the tires to wear out more. We're out faster. Yep. They, they can, like, the tires now are like too, too hard. Like too good almost. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. And they shy away. Um, they shy away from, they like making them too the fall off cuz they, that leads to blowouts and you know, people hitting the walls hard, which is not good. But like, it's also a part of racing And uh, I was actually listening to Denny Hamlin on the way over here and like, he agrees like we should, like, that should be an aspect of racing. Like it would teach drivers to like, take it easy, you know, on your tires in the first part and run.
Speaker 2 00:20:05 Not to just overrun 'em. Like, cuz you know, like, man, if I overrun this, I'm gonna have, I'm gonna hit the wall. Yeah. Basically. So like, that's like we, we want to get back to the tires being, you know, soft than wear out more. Yeah. It's shittier basically. That's shitty tires. We're going for it. If it's, if you wanted like the kindergarten explanation for sure. It's like if you listen to anyone talk about regular car tires, you're driving down the road and you're driving real hard and over the course of 50,000, 60,000 miles your, your tires wear out means your
Speaker 3 00:20:32 Hey, 50,000 miles. I get like
Speaker 2 00:20:34 30. Oh dang. See you're driving really hard. You're doing what you, you're dropping that hell outta you got a great short run car for sure. Yeah. Driving NASCAR fast. Let's go. So you, uh, yeah, they always say like, the older your tires get, the more bulb they get, the less they're gonna be able to disperse the water. Whenever you get water on the road, the longer it's gonna take you to stop at speed, the harder it's gonna be for those tires to get grip when you're really trying to maneuver. So the same thing, exact same thing happens to a racing tire. Instead of 50,000 miles, it's over about 50 to 60 laps. So you're talking, taking the great grip of this racing tire where you can stop in 10 feet to get to corner speed. Now all of a sudden you're having to start stop.
Speaker 2 00:21:09 You're having to back that breaking zone up about to 30 feet. So that way you can actually be down to the right speed. You need to actually get the grip outta the car so you don't end up spinning it out. But yeah, like, like Dawson said, and it's, and then stage breaks are a new thing that got brought in, in like 2000, like 14, 15, 16, somewhere in there. And uh, it was basically just to add two breaks into the race to like ba almost kind of replicate like a two parts a a quarter for a football or something I'd say. Yeah. They like know they can get commercials in there, you know, yada yada y whatever. And then they also could have a great restart of side by side racing, which was May was a, a pretty plan. Yeah. Yeah. And they give away points to the top 10 guys. So like first gets 10, second nine, you know, whatever the top 10 Yeah. That counts. But like people are, I feel like from what I see and I feel this and what I see on Twitter, people are like over stages. Wow. They just took 'em away on road courses. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So everybody's like hoping like, like yesterday I feel like would've been like a gr even better race with no stages. Like no stages in entire fall off. Man. We would've been, it'd been incredible. Yeah. In my opinion. But that's what stages in entire fall
Speaker 3 00:22:13 Off. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I appreciate you guys taking the time to explain that to me.
Speaker 2 00:22:16 You're welcome. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 00:22:18 I've only been to one race before.
Speaker 2 00:22:19 It was, yeah. Where was it?
Speaker 3 00:22:20 It was up in the Poconos. Okay.
Speaker 2 00:22:22 Oh man. It was a tricky triangle. Yeah. Ah, I'm jealous. They always say it's one of the best race tracks to go to. It was a lot every year. I mean it
Speaker 3 00:22:28 Was super cold. Freezing your a great time. Yeah. I did not dress appropriately cause I was pretty young.
Speaker 2 00:22:35 <laugh>. I was gonna ask like, what year would this been? God,
Speaker 3 00:22:37 I don't know. I was outta college, but it was still probably 15 years ago. Wow.
Speaker 2 00:22:41 Hell yeah. Back in the prom of nascar. You remember who won?
Speaker 3 00:22:43 God, I don't. Oh dang. That was so many beers ago that
Speaker 2 00:22:47 I, I
Speaker 3 00:22:48 Believe that I can look it up though. I bet.
Speaker 2 00:22:49 Believe it. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. That we'll have to find out that answer and we'll, we'll have to put it up on the Twitter, the answer, the secret t trivia question for the week.
Speaker 3 00:22:56 The internet will have our, our back
Speaker 2 00:22:58 For sure. Yeah. Probably somebody who's already typing right now. Dude, it was this guy, man. Like how do you not remember that? There's definitely some, that's some keyboard warrior out there right now. Fired up 15 years ago. I was only 10, so I got a lot of remembering to do. Yeah. Back then. Dang. I don't even know how old I am now. So it's, it's hard to say 14, I guess it would've been. Yeah. Either way. Yeah. Po yeah. Uh, we're trying to hit all the races one day, so Poconos on the list.
Speaker 3 00:23:22 Oh, absolutely. We're going to nascar, uh, in Nashville. We
Speaker 2 00:23:25 Are. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. God bless
Speaker 3 00:23:28 Ike. What a blessing. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:23:29 We love, we like Ike, we like Ike, we love
Speaker 3 00:23:32 Sure. We
Speaker 2 00:23:32 So much. Definitely. I'm excited for that man. Yeah. It it's gonna be a good time. It's uh, I love that they moved it to the night race because I've been, we've been the last couple years, dude. It's like brutal Ju July heat in Nashville, bro. Dude, dude, kick your ass, dude. Oh, we got to the end of the, we got to end of Sunday. I went to all three races in a row by the time Sunday came around. Man, I couldn't, I I could drink 15 beers and not get drunk at that point because I was so sunburned and exhausted. Beer was just the only thing keeping me alive at that point. It might have been coffee <laugh>. I have some incredible pictures from Caleb that weekend that I can't share on the internet, but <laugh>, they're incredible. That man has curled up like a pretzel <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:24:08 Oh yeah. I I mean the chair couldn't have been any bigger than this and my entire upper body was just laying in the actual seat itself. So she, feet of contortionist. These chairs are pretty, pretty big. I'm loving these chairs right here, guy. These are way better than the chair I was curled up in. Yeah. But yeah, anyway, so going back over into Martinsville. Yeah, sorry. We uh, sorry. No, I love the, I love the tangent. I love the tangent <laugh>. That was a, that was a great, uh, use of time. Um, but yeah, going into Martinsville, I I, like we said, we had very low expectation. Previous year was super boring. It was just, it was like driving down four 40. It was just nose to tail, nose, tail, nose, tail. Yeah. Nothing ever changed. No matter how hard you hit somebody, they had the ability to get the control back of the car.
Speaker 2 00:24:48 So you really couldn couldn't they shift now short track so that we also should take that away. Yeah, I'll add that to my list of things. Just take away Yeah, because one thing, one thing about previous generations in NASCAR is once you got up in that high gear, that pretty much was the gear you raced in. You never changed, uh, at all. You see you only shifted on road courses, but that is now Yeah. A new car. This next Genin car, uh, they shift at everywhere. They are shifting on Bristol dirt last week. I mean the fact they're shifting Martinsville is here. That is just freaking bonkers. Bonkers. And they also have, is it five or six gears now? Uh, I think it's five, five gears I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Used to just have a normal old like, you know, four speed in the floor.
Speaker 2 00:25:24 Like they got, you know, the old, you know, the stereotypical pattern Yeah. H pattern. Now you got like sequential shifting, so it's all just back and forth. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, I've got the exact same thing in my freaking Hyundai accent out here. So I mean, I'm basically a NASCAR driver with front wheel drive. It's great. It's great. True sponsored by Oscar Meyer. Absolutely. And my tires are pretty bald so that makes me almost like a NASCAR driver too. You basically are hundred percent, you're about 50 laps away from a blowout for sure. <laugh> one Nashville pothole and you are screwed by man. Absolutely man. It's not just your alignment, it's your life man. No, you are screwed. Oh, lordy. But yeah, so they, now that they're shifting into the, uh, into the corners, it does take a little bit of the true NASCAR feel of the race away because they can just downshift and grab another gear that has a little bit more power and fire outta that corner a little better.
Speaker 2 00:26:11 Takes a little bit of your ability to pass. Yeah. We hate away from you. We don't like that because you said if you overshot the corner, like your corner was ruined, you know mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. It screwed you up because you gotta build all that momentum up at a very low rpm. You have no torque. You have all that horsepower but no torque getting actually down to the tire, so you're just screwed. So now if you just, if you, if you have a screw up, it's like your safety net is just downshifting and you really don't, it's not really a screw up anymore. Yeah, yeah. You're just Okay then. Yeah. Yeah. But that was something that was a little bit interesting about this week is that they still had all those things and they did change up the aerodynamic package by basically taking your spoiler and making it probably two, what was it?
Speaker 2 00:26:48 Two inches tall now I think it's a two inch spoiler. Yeah. Going down from force. So they reduced the spoiler by like 50%, which is gonna keep your car from dragging as much and take a little bit of down force away. They also did some stuff to the undercarriage, the diffuser, but you'd have to really get into the nitty gritty of all that to understand everything that was going on. But they tried and they made an effort to make sure that you weren't just planted down in the corner and you actually could over throttle the car and spin it out a little bit. It, I think it helped a little bit. I think that definitely helped out the racing aspect of it made the product on the track better. I enjoyed it. Uh, they said it was still extremely hard to pass when you were back in the thick of things.
Speaker 2 00:27:27 Yeah. So there's still an issue there. I mean, they, they have not solved all of our problems. Well, you can see the issue, the issues rot in the front when uh, like the 22 car runs so bad. I mean the whole race and then Denny just doesn't get around to laughing at him. Yeah. And then he comes back and he is like the 20 twos out running the 11. Yeah. You look at the 41. If the 41 was really that good, uh, then he should, when he got his penalty, he should be able to come right back. Yeah. But he didn't. So like once you get back in dirty air there and the tire, there's no tire fall off again. So like they are just stuck back there, which that part sucked. I mean that's, that's, no, that's, I don't really recall ever seeing something that, that drastic like Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:28:07 I've never seen They were, they were screwed if they got in the back. Yeah. It's almost like you could take someone from 25th place and just pick up their car and move it to the front and just say, let's see what happens. And they're probably going to outrun and it worked. Whoever it was, it worked and it actually happened with Ross Chastain. Oh yeah. Old, old, like 30 or 40 lap old tires and he took off at Martin Martinsville. That's ancient. I mean those tires are so yesterday's news, we might as well be talking about a race that happened in 1945 as the equivalent at Martinsville. I mean this Jesus, these tires are old. They usually have wear on 'em like that. Yeah. But you put, he just takes no tires. Staples out goes all the way out to the very front of the pack and next thing you know, he's got like a two and a half second lead on the guys.
Speaker 2 00:28:47 Yeah. That had those tires right behind him. The crazy ran craziest thing. Then ran, they ran another probably 30 to 40 laps after that. So he is got at that point, 60 to 80 laps. I feel like we're on those tires. Yeah. Then he finally, the tire wear, like I was talking about, showed up and he got passed. But man, being able to pull away from guys he was, I mean the dudes literally running like 30 something before this happened, like a 30th place car to be able to outrun the leader, like the legit leaders on like 30 lap old tires. That's mind blowing. Yeah. Never would've happened in a previous race before This next gen car. Before the next gen car. Yeah. This gen seven thing we've got going on now. Genin seven, gym eight, I don't know, I I've I've lost track. Don't care.
Speaker 2 00:29:26 I don't this this next gen car, but either way Yeah. <laugh>, they, uh, it was, it was definitely an interesting race pit cycles made this entire race. If you, if you managed to be one of the people that stayed out with two and get up to the front of the pack, you definitely had an advantage over the people that took, took four and got put behind you eventually and we're talking like 80 laps into a run. Yeah. You would've been able to move forward. But that's just so not the Martinsville you're used to seeing. You're used to seeing tires falling off. You're used to seeing cars going slower and passes being made, but depending on who took care of their equipment, brakes aren't fading like they used to. The brakes are too good now. The brakes are too good and they can downshift like we were talking about and engine breaks the car brake.
Speaker 2 00:30:05 Yeah. So it's like there's so many different things that are affecting the way this car drove, but I will say market improvement over the last race that they had there. Yeah. What made the, the, what made that race fun was the comers and goers, but they got put there because of, you know, penalties happened the way the cautions fell. And you know, people doing that crazy strategy of no tires, two tires, whatever. Like that's what made it a cool race. Like if Ryan Priest would've just ran 400 laps to the front without pitting, which you can't do. I'm just saying like it would, he would, it would've been follow the leader. I mean that it just is what it is. Mm. And that sucks. But like we just happened to get some cool cautions happened to have some cool strategy and turned out to be a pretty fun race for me.
Speaker 2 00:30:43 And surprisingly enough s r making a huge stride this week. Yeah. I mean they have gen these, the dookie trash. They've been sucking hi tit all season long and then suddenly come outta this one race in har track in hav. He's, he, he, he, he averages the top 10 every single week. So Absolutely. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Pretty solid, but not running up there. Yeah. For most of the race he usually, I mean they call him the closer for a reason. He ends up where he needs to be by the end of the race. By some miracle of magic between him. They said it on the broadcast this week, they said Bobby or somebody, he goes, uh, Harv knows what lap pays the most. Yeah. And that, that, that is that it should be the definition of Kevin Har. He knows which which, which lap page.
Speaker 2 00:31:24 Yeah, he really does. But somehow, I mean we had the, we even had the tin car running up front and Eric Amarillo's got one fed out the door. So Yeah, he's literal how he just suddenly shows up 30th in points and like half retired. Yeah. And I mean, I made the joke in the middle of the race. I was like, man, this is gonna be one of those, one of those points where Eric Amarillo just comes out and skunks us with one solid win out of absolutely nowhere. Yeah. He did it last year at New Hampshire. He's gonna do it again this year. Like where's this guy come from? Just one, one particular race. He just decides to show up. But him, Ryan Priest leads the whole first stage. Basically Ryan Priest would've won that race if he didn't speed on pit Road, but he spent on pit road, he Denny Hamlin himself.
Speaker 2 00:32:03 <laugh> Exactly. Put himself in 25th or worst. And then, I don't know if where you're finished, but I feel like it probably wasn't much out of the twenties. Uh, I think it was like 21st or something that, but I can look that up here real quick. Yeah. Just couldn't get out of, couldn't get out. You know, it is what it is. Yeah. You get mired in the back, just like we said, you could have a car that looks like it's going to win the damn race and you're going to get put back in traffic and just look like you are driving a fricking, uh, McLeod car. I mean, I, I hate to put the guy down, but, uh, it's, it's basically turns into that you get put back in 25th and that's where you end up sitting the entire time. Yes. Uh, what I thought was crazy during the race was like Ryan Prius finished 15th, by the way, 15th.
Speaker 2 00:32:45 Better than I thought, but still not very good. Yeah, I mean, to knock the five off, if you had finished it at stage one, the, uh, the, the weather kind of changed a little bit. Like it was kind of cloudy to start the race and then the sun beats down. Like Alex Bowman will is the fastest car on the track when the clouds were out, like dude was flying, sun comes out trash and Denny Hamlin talks about, he was like, once the sun came out, my car was getting it. He's like, we were hauling the mail. Yeah. It's like that was, that was also a weird thing, like kind of made some comers and goers as well. Like that weather. I'll take another one of those too, sir. Hell yeah. Oh, microphone. It's a first podcast. Sorry, it's first one. Some glitches. It's just beer. It's just beer <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:33:25 But uh, yeah, that was another like little thing that was kind of crazy like that coming around and uh, you know, he, once the sun came out, 48 fell back and he ended up running like 13th, something like that. So yeah, I mean that's the crazy part. If you've never watched NASCAR before, you'd never even think of cloud cover being a thing. But yeah, cloud comes over that track, cools it off, tightens it up. Yeah. So or then when the sun comes out and people talk about like hot and slick, just like the concrete asphalt gets hotter, that's just it, you know, that's what happens. And the cars get looser and some cars are gonna adapt to that and are gonna run better and some cars aren't. So it's just like one of those variables that, you know, do change, especially between like races like the 600 that start in the day and end at night.
Speaker 2 00:34:04 Mm-hmm. <affirmative> usually the guys that start out. Well other than a couple situations with Kyle Bush and Truex when he laid like every single lap team. Oh yeah. Uh, the guys that start out smart, adjusting, incredible, don't always finish incredible because of the track changing. Yeah. Makes sense. And that's, that's one thing that's hard about this next gen car is they used to have a few different things they could adjust on the older style of car, like the ones we're looking at here. But nowadays, I mean you, you, you have a little bit of a wedge adjustment, both the differences in the way that those cars drive, the way they get the power to the tires, the way the suspension is set up, since it's on an independent suspension now, there's so many other factors that go into how your car drive that it has to basically leave the garage a top five car.
Speaker 2 00:34:46 I feel like sometimes. And you gotta get there and the adjustments you can make do make a difference. But I don't think they make as much as, as much of a difference as they ever used to. Now I used to you could change everything on the car. Yeah. Now like pretty much what you unload with is what you're gonna raise. Yeah. Yeah. You better leave the garage. That's why practice is only 10 minutes in 2023. It's like it's not doing anything for you. You, especially if you're gonna unload and that's just where it's gonna be. If you unload with the right setup, cool. If you don't, sorry much about you missed it dog, you better not take any tires and end up at the front of the field. We'll see you next week. <laugh>. Yeah. <laugh>. Yep. That's so true. But yeah, I mean all those things considered, I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Speaker 2 00:35:23 I mean if there was anything I was really surprised about it was the s r dominance and then also Hendrick. I mean, end up winning the race. You can, you can't take Martinsville away from Hendrick Motorsport, but somebody is going to do something. Musicians, man. They do. They, they managed to run some for Hendrick Motorsport standards this year. They ran mediocre at best all day long and ended up somehow still getting the win out of it. I mean, this team is just kind of unstoppable this year. I don't really know what's going to change. Somebody's gonna have to find something wildly crazy that's gonna give them some sort of advantage. But Hendrick just really has the cars to beat every week. Yeah. The reason you're wearing the hat right now. Yeah. You got, you got, uh, Byron with two wins, Larson with two wins. And then the point, the average point, well he's not the point leader right now because Bell just took him over.
Speaker 2 00:36:12 But Bowman has a, the only guy with the top 10 average and he's finished top 10 in every race, but like two or three Crazy. Yeah. Crazy man. And I mean now they've got Chase Elliot back, which is another big storyline this week. Yeah. Chase Elliot breaks his leg, finally makes it back into the car, said his leg felt fine, finish his 10th finish, 10th, I mean, ran in mid twenties all day long. I really didn't see the 10th place coming at all. But then again, I didn't see Joe Logano finishing in, what was he second, third, second, and third. Yeah. Uh, I didn't see any of that coming. I thought that was everything about the end was not at all what I thought in stage one. So this race couldn't have changed any more than it did without it just going right back where it was anyway. Yeah. That made
Speaker 3 00:36:48 It fun. That sounds great. And Ricky Bobby didn't race this one,
Speaker 2 00:36:51 Right? He did not. No. He was actually still in the hospital. Uh, he had to get his legs back underneath him, just like did get a enough in his leg cut around the knife. Yeah. He had a, uh, he had a lot slower recovery than Chase did. Let's put it that way. All right, so let's, uh, bring this up. We're starting, uh, this is gonna be one of our little segments. We're we're gonna call this, but uh, the hack of the week, hack of the week,
Speaker 3 00:37:15 Not like a golf hack.
Speaker 2 00:37:17 Different, I don't even know what a golf hack is, like a life hack. Uh, no, no, no, no, no. Hack not a life. So a couple years ago, 20 20, 21 I would say this was Alex Bowman 48 car. He, uh, gives a little chrome horn to the 11 car and he's gonna do his burn out. 11 car, like comes, hits him, you know, they're like head on. I've never seen anybody do that during a winning celebration. Gets outta the car. Ginny Hamlin is pissed off. And he was like, yeah, he's just a hack, you know, whatever. And what track was that at Martinsville where, where we were at this past weekend. So just, just it's, it's become a thing and like Bowman signed, like signed his new deal and like had a, even had a t-shirt that's like the hack is back. I think he made a t-shirt like that said, hack on it, you know, whatever they play into it. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So the hack is basically just the dumb ass of the week. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:38:07 The crappy driver.
Speaker 2 00:38:09 Uh, or someone that made a baby or or someone that makes a dumb decision. Like this week guy, this hack of the week, Mr. Carson Hoster who number 42 in the truck series already a crazy race. Ah, I mean you're gonna have, you're gonna have to take it away. I feel like you're gonna describe this way more than, than I'm gonna be able to say. I don't, I didn't really get to watch the whole truck race. So, um, I get on Twitter and I even made a post that said this. I was like, 99% of the time if a driver does something dumb as hell, it can be the dumbest thing you've ever seen. Everybody is still 50 50 split on whether they thought it was this or they thought it was that. It's always 50 50. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Yeah. I get on Twitter and every single tweet is f Carson hoster.
Speaker 2 00:38:55 This guy is a clown. Like they're, people are just, I'm like, they're just going to town. I was like, I've never seen like such an inclusive of like screw a driver ever than this guy right here. Like, they're just like not getting down. I mean, Denny Hammond's tweeting, they the cup guys are tweeting like part-time guys are tweeting. It's just like what the hell is going on? Yeah. So he has, he has been known to um, spin out on purpose to cause a caution if he needs it. He's done that multiple times. He's been known to right. Hook a couple guys in his career, which is like the biggest no-no in racing from the biggest of bigs to the local short track go-karts. You know, you don't right hook guy on the wall. Cause that's like the most dangerous angle for it to get sent and going in the back stretch, I don't even remember what driver it was going in the back stretch.
Speaker 2 00:39:45 They start touching and he just swerves down again. It was one of the Gray brothers. It was one of the gray was, I just don't remember if it was Taylor or Tanner, but that's, I don't even remember. Right. Hooks him. Right. Hooks a guy and wrecked himself doing it. Yeah. His down pit road hits the curb and all the best part of it too is the guy he was trying to right hook just corrects his truck and keeps on going. Like nothing ever happened. Just com made a complete fool out of himself. Wright Hooks the guy and NASCAR hit him with the two lap penalty. It'd would be dope if they hit him with something else cuz he's somebody on Twitter made like this compilation video of all the screw ups that he's done and like causing shit on purpose. Like actions detrimental to stock car racing.
Speaker 2 00:40:24 Like guy's gotta get suspended. And this is only maybe one, two weeks after his very first win of the the next race. The next race, the next race. Yeah. It's so it's right there. He's finally gets himself into the spotlight and I mean you can't avoid it. The spotlight is on you. You are the previous greatest winner. You have the momentum, you have the attention, and you go out there and dude lost whole fan base in one turn. Yeah. You go out there and do something so unbelievably clownish clown, you just let yourself lose everything you just did. Clown emoji week. That sound, I mean clown emoji. Just giving yourself every possible way to take two steps back after you took one good step forward. I mean, and, and let's just say this, the wind was a little controversial last week. Old cars, I mean, I think old dude was gonna wreck anyway, Nick Sanchez think he was gonna wreck no matter what because the, uh, all y'all will know what the wreck I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 00:41:17 Carson just happens to be there. But still a little controversial when you have that was one of those 50 50 deals. Half of people was like, yeah, he wrecked the hell outta him. Or another half was like, oh no, he just kept his footing. You know, whatever. That was one of those 50 50 deals like I was talking about. Yeah. But it wouldn't be worth talking about again if it wasn't for the very next week going out there and proving everybody that this is who this guy is gonna be and he just keeps doing it and keeps doing it. And like NASCAR hasn't done anything that I know of. And they have this thing called SMT data where they can like look at the steering wheel and the gas and the brake, everything on the car. They can see exactly what the driver's doing and you can tell if they jerk the steering wheel and spin it and whatever. Yeah. And he's done this multiple times. Yeah. It's like something's gotta be done. So Absolutely. Carson is the hack of the week. Ba that is an award you just never want to get Right there. That is. Damn right. But he earned it the hard way.
Speaker 3 00:42:05 I hope they never get one
Speaker 2 00:42:06 <laugh>. Dang. All right. If those tires go out though, you might be the happi. Absolutely. We'll have to give you the hack of the weekend award if we just talked all about this and you still haven't got your retires replaced and all of a sudden the outside wall of four 40 just has a bunch of donuts for Yeah, we don't, we don't all the way down it, but if we have to give it to you, I'll take it. We'll, yeah, you gotta just wear it with, you know, you gotta wear it. We need to get like a crown or like a sash or something. Yeah, I agree. It'd be great. I think if next race I go tell Master Carson to sign it a
Speaker 3 00:42:33 Championship
Speaker 2 00:42:34 Belt. Oh man, that'd be great. A champ appreciate belt. The championship belt hack sign when we go to the race. Dude, that would be incredible. Yeah, absolutely. I was like, hey man, if you haven't heard our podcast, you should definitely go listen to it. You're gonna wanna hear episode one Carson, but we don't actually hate you, but like you're a clown dude. Yeah. Like if you're gonna do something dumb, we're gonna call you out on it If you hate us, whatever. If you like us, cool. That's, we'll drink a beer with you. It's fine. Without a doubt. I'd drink a beer with any NASCAR driver. Yeah, I don't care. I'll drink a beer with any NASCAR driver out there. It's just like if you do something crazy or stupid, like we're just too good old boy fans. We come for we're just good old boy fans. We going, we going, we're going just call, call. Like we see, let 'em know. Yeah. That's the biggest thing about this podcast is like, we're just fans. We don't race, race cars don't claim to know how to race race cars. Like we're just the most average middle class blue collar dudes out there. Yep. That just want to, you know, have outrageous opinions about nascar. And if it wasn't for nascar, it'd be sober. Burn out on my job anyway. <laugh>. <laugh>. Excuse me. A release. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:43:33 Well, I think that's what it's about, man. It's about finding something you love and other people that love it. And that's kind of like the thing about like what we do with music, right? It's
Speaker 2 00:43:41 It is, it's the thing. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, it's absolutely, yeah. It's what got us all here. Yep. But if I had to think about music seven days a week, man, my, my brain would melt. Y already gotta think about it for like six days. So I need the seventh. Yeah. The Lord's Day. I, uh, on the day we
Speaker 3 00:43:55 Talk racing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:43:56 <laugh>. That's what we're here for. Um, I mean, I I, they did try the wet tire thing out at the truck race. I had not really much to talk about there. They ran 'em, it was pretty much dry anyway. It wasn't even worth really talking about. They call a caution to put the slicks back on it, but they still not have pit road kind of dry, which I thought was a little backwards. But I mean, at the end of the day, this is a very first part of a long experiment. I feel like it's gonna be years in the making before we ever actually have a full on wet race. That's exactly what I'm thinking. Like, if they can just, you know, start a, something cool. I I, I was being super harsh on it, on Twitter, like, what's the point of having if you're not gonna run 'em, but hey, you can't just dive in headfirst.
Speaker 2 00:44:35 We, they tried to do that at Koda and it turned out to be the most just Oh God shit show of all time. So I was listening to MRN and I could tell how bad that looked. I was, I was only hearing, and they don't do it on oval, so they, they're just taking a little couple baby steps. Yeah. So they don't get there. So I mean, we could talk about that to blue in the face. But anyway, this week, uh, Dawson big winner on, on all his bets. I don't, I don't think he had a bet that missed. And if he did, it was, wasn't worth much. Anyway, so it was, I had a bet that missed with Bowman top three, which if the damn clouds would've stayed out, I was like, damn, this, you might got pretty good. But, uh, dude, I missed that.
Speaker 2 00:45:07 And that was like, that was, it was missed. The Bowman nailed everything else. And then somehow just nailed everything. Like I posted, like the short tracks. Dude, my biggest wins of the year have been Phoenix, Richmond, and then Martinsville, which are the short track package That's new packages track. Yeah. Do, do, do. Yeah. That's me right now. Mr. Short tracks. So I don't know what that Mr, I don't know what that means. That's a T-shirt, right? That but, uh, yeah, that just is, uh, Mr. Short track, Mr. Short track. Boom. Right. Must be my, that should be my nickname on this podcast. That should be absolutely short track, Mr. Short track himself. Tell us some Edwards. Yeah. Yeah. And like, I don't know, like, I just have, I, I don't know. I nailed at, uh, Phoenix coming back from Indiana and uh, I'm so new to NASCAR betting.
Speaker 2 00:45:49 I didn't even know that you could like, make a parlay. Right. Didn't even know what a parlay was. Really. Didn't parlay was before, before February. I had no idea what a parlay was. So Caleb shows me, you can go in here and like click like multiple things. I'm like, holy shit. Yeah. I looked at him, I was like, man, I've lost at least $200 doing this. This is be a lot of fun for you. <laugh>. Yeah, <laugh>. So, so we are on the way back from Indiana and I am in the passenger seat just like screwing off. I go down and pick five par, like five guys to beat another five guys. They all hit, my eyes are like plus 1400 or something. And I'm like, what the hell? And I have this other betting thing I do with my dad and his coworkers on, and I'm Tyler Reddick is my guy on there, and he's already won like three for me.
Speaker 2 00:46:31 So <laugh> man, I'm just like, I don't know beginner's luck or what, but I, I'm doing, I'm doing some good stuff on the NASCAR betting side of things. I mean, the funniest thing is, is we play casinos all the dang time. This man will never put money into a machine. The only machine he will put money into is the atm just to put his per diem in a savings account. That's, I don't, I don't, I don't gamble anymore. Not at all else. I just started doing this and, and don't worry, oh, it's turned him to the dark side. He is now betting on nascar and it is hilarious to watch because he talks, you talk to me about betting on NASCAR more than anything else at this point. Yeah. He is whole wholeheartedly into this. And it has been the craziest transition. And if I suck that, but it's working, probably wouldn't like it that much, but so far it's working.
Speaker 2 00:47:11 So it's like why not? That's how they get you, you know. It is. I know they're giving, they must be giving him different odds or different drivers or something. They're switching his picks in the middle just to be like, Hey, this guy's still only three months in. We gotta best part though. So talking about NASCAR button and hitting it big this week, I bet on the b uh, Xfinity and Truck race Also, just for all the listeners, if I say the Bush race, I apologize. Hey is Xfinity, I've been saying the Bush series since I was a little kid. It just comes out the Bush series, but his head is stuck in 2008. Like every ho every person who owned a home back then. Yes. Yes. So when I say Bush, I mean Xfinity. I will try to correct myself. It won't many times as possible.
Speaker 2 00:47:48 He won't, don't let him lie to, he's gonna call it Bush every time. I almost called it nationwide this morning. Yeah. We're all stuck in the past. So anyway, I bet on the trucks bush and cup race, I missed every single bet before the cup race. Hit the cup race, boom. Hit 'em all. Oh yeah. Ding ding, ding, ding, ding. It was crazy. I know people, I posted my thing. I had Hamlin beating Byron and I posted that twice. I bet that twice. So that's why I posted it twice. So that is hilarious. I double down on it. That is the only bet I hit this week. <laugh>, I had probably six bets in. I didn't take a ton because we were, uh, I was in Texas, uh, this previous week, so I didn't get a chance to put in bets until Sunday morning. And I'd missed every bit of truck race, every bit of Xfinity race.
Speaker 2 00:48:30 Didn't see qualifying, didn't see practice. I just threw some money into the air and hoped and none of it came back down. I don't know where it is anymore. <laugh>. I got like $4 left in my account. You paid DraftKings? I did. I paid DraftKings. I said, thank you for your service. I gave them about 10 hours. They might have gave your money to me. I think they did actually. They just transferred it right over. Just have it. That's awesome. <laugh>. So yeah. Dawson's your big winner there. Uh, it's kind of funny. It seems like every single race we get to the very end of it and all the bets that we'd had hitting the entire time lose and all the bets that we had losing the entire time win those late race costings. Man. Every freaking time, man. This weekend I had like, at least Caleb nailed Koda.
Speaker 2 00:49:11 What? Caleb? Oh yeah. Nailed Koda. I had that. I had that one unlock and it was only because of the late race restarts. Yeah. I had only like two bets hitting. And then all of a sudden that last, that 14th restart in a row, I had all of my bets hitting. Yeah. It was crazy. You cashed in on Zane Smith with the last second? I did. We were at rehearsal. I got a big, Caleb got a big truck win that week. Oh yeah. And Nailed was great. Nailed like, like I did this week with all mine. He nailed all his cutting ones and all of that. Money is gone. Don't have a bit of it left. Use it all. I just totally lost my ass the last two weeks. It's been phenomenal. I'm happy to be here, honestly. I mean, least your still beer. It's true.
Speaker 2 00:49:46 And hon, I'm about to have to bet a beer to get, uh, some kind of payout next week. So Yeah. Much tough luck. It is. Tough luck. Cause I hate to give up a beer, but I'm about to do it next week. It's holiday. It happens. That was a cold one or whatever, but yeah, that's what Eric Church said. Yeah. But I think it's, it's time to, uh, get down onto the next topic of conversation. Ding d ding. I think so. Ding ding, ding. I'm here for it. Yeah. You know. Favorite weekend of the year, baby. Know, you know what, you know where we're going. We're going tell fucking day Good boys. Yes sir. They gco 500. We're not even talking Aaron's 4 99 anymore. We added a mile because it was so cool. We're here again. I'm ready for it. We got pack racing and we got side by side. We got stupid wreckx. We got great wrecks. Somebody might die. I don't know. Redneck. I hope nobody dies. I hope nobody dies. Dies either. But it's Talladega. There's, it's an always an option. You never know what's coming. Talladega is God's gift to earth. It really is. Man. You didn't know that. 2.66 miles of heaven. I got it right man. I got that. Is it Ain't hill love calling it 2.55, but it's 2.66. Man. I just leave off the 11 <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:50:47 Ooh. What does Talladega smell like?
Speaker 2 00:50:49 Oh, race and fuel and bad, bad decisions. And, and like naked titties. <laugh>, sweaty, naked titties. That's what Talladega smells like. That's what the country country is found about. The biggest grossest ones you've ever seen. Absolutely love it. But you, you're in Talladega is like, you love that. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you're there for, honestly. Yeah. <laugh> dude. Talladega is, if there was a redneck heaven, like that's, that's, that's redneck heaven. It's Talladega, Alabama. The town is not big. Very small town. Didn't even see the town when I was there. Probably ran right over it. I was
Speaker 3 00:51:23 There for a
Speaker 2 00:51:23 Show before. Wow. Comes up to like a damn, there's like a hundred something thousand people come to Dega every weekend or every the two races, you know, of the year. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Golly man. It's insane. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:51:34 Heather and Brandy are going and they're very upset that I'm not, but
Speaker 2 00:51:37 Ooh, you got, I mean, are they going this weekend? Yeah. Ah, we wanted to bad, but we're coming back from Dallas, so we can't make it, we won't be able to make it. I also wanna play for a flight from Dallas to whatever the hell you fly into at Talladega. I don't know. I feel like that'd be about the only way we could do it. And it still wouldn't be, it wouldn't be easy. We would've no car or anything, so it kind of suck. But, but we are off. Uh, I think we're going to the fall race for sure. Going to the fall
Speaker 3 00:51:58 Race. I'm down for that.
Speaker 2 00:51:59 Let's do it. We're hitting up like a bunch of races. We've got to, I mean, I, I haven't, I didn't get to go to a whole an a single race last year. I've already been to Atlanta. Busy going to Nashville. Gonna go to Atlanta again. And Dega. Those are for sure the next three on the list. So
Speaker 3 00:52:12 When's the fall day race? I'm
Speaker 2 00:52:13 Putting in the October. October 20. It'll be like October 3rd, second or third week of October. Yeah. I wanna say you can look it up on the phone. You got it. I got it too. So I'll check. Let's see. He, uh, October 21st. October 1st baby yellow 500 October 1st. Yeah. We'll be there October 1st. We are off that whole weekend. You can find me. Uh, Saturday watching the Lowe's RV shop two 50. And that's the truck race. Yeah. So I'll be watching that. And then the damn Yellowwood 500 for the cup. Yeah. It was gonna be a good time, but, uh, I really think this is gonna be one of the everybody's favorite races of the year. If it's not yours, it will be soon. Uh, like we said, if you're gonna go to a cup race, you've never been to a race in your whole life, you need to go to Talladega and you go to Bristol. If you're not hooked after that, you probably don't. You probably don't have Red American blood in. This isn't for you. This isn't for you if you don't like that. That's all I gotta say. Absolutely. I
Speaker 3 00:53:08 Did get to go to Bristol, but not during a race
Speaker 2 00:53:11 And get to go for the big concert last year. Oh yeah. We were supposed to be there, but we got it rained out. Yeah, we uh, they they still had the concert. We just didn't make it. Uh, I
Speaker 3 00:53:20 Got to ride in a minivan on the
Speaker 2 00:53:22 Track. I'm surprised I didn't flip over from the 36 degree banking like
Speaker 3 00:53:25 This. Absolutely. We literally walked up that bend. Yeah. And I like was It was so wild. Oh, it just walking up it was nuts. Just
Speaker 2 00:53:32 A like, like that's like walking straight up basically.
Speaker 3 00:53:35 Yeah, it was
Speaker 2 00:53:36 Wild. It's crazy stuff. Yeah, it is crazy. Yeah. We
Speaker 3 00:53:38 Also rolled Sarah Beth down in a cart.
Speaker 2 00:53:41 Amazing man. Yeah, I bet she got some speed going down there. It was speed. Speed, speed. She get road rash.
Speaker 3 00:53:46 No, she actually did really
Speaker 2 00:53:47 Well. She didn't crash. Yeah. All right. Good deal.
Speaker 3 00:53:49 Yeah, she just went and NASCAR fast, but not like
Speaker 2 00:53:51 That's
Speaker 3 00:53:52 Phenomenous
Speaker 2 00:53:52 Baby. No, that's good. That's good. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, going into uh, Talladega, uh, there is a whole lot of stuff that you gotta be watching out for. Uh, you're gonna hear a lot of things this week drafting. You hear a lot about drafting tapered pacers, which are gonna be called restrictor plates a ton. Just get ready. They're called restrictor plates. Larry all might even called us restricted. All they do is reduce the horsepower, make the cars run in the pack. They're restrictor plates. That's what they're gonna call 'em. Yep. Lots of that drafting side by side. Uh, pack racing's gonna be a big word. You get a lot. Uh, those are your drinking terms for the weekend. Absolutely. If you, uh, look those up online, uh, just make sure you type NASCAR after it. You never know what kinda lie they might tell you if you don't.
Speaker 2 00:54:30 But uh, yeah, you're gonna see a whole lot of that. Uh, we even brought two of the dies. So we actually managed to go to Talladega a couple years back. Was at 2019. 2019 in October fall race. Most depressing, uh, weekend of my life. Because this car right here, my guy Ryan Blaney goes around in uh, coming outta turn four trying to get to the pit road. Man spins. I'm at the concession stand line, don't even see it. All I hear is his tire squealing as he's spinning around. Yep. End up rained out after stage one. I'm thinking, oh, well Blaney just spun. Probably not gonna do much after this. It is what it is. I go home, they don't restart the race till the next day. And Dawson, I got to go back. This guy gets to go to the dang race and I go to sit on the six car pit box and the 12 beats the six by back far 0 0 6 seconds.
Speaker 2 00:55:22 Well I was the inch away from going to Victory Lane for that one. I was at work the next day. That was the reason I couldn't stay. And I watch it on TV cause I'm working at a sports bar Toots. Where you at? Uh, and at the time I'm watching it on tv. Ryan Blaney comes around, wins the race. And I've never been more sad in my entire life because I went to a race where my guy ended up winning it and I couldn't even watch the end. Still depressed. I'm still upset. I'm never gonna get over it. Uh, Talladega owes me one. So when we come around in October, Talladega, I'm looking at you. I need it. I need that. Uh, but we also got to watch the truck race. That's the winning, uh, Spencer Boyd win the truck race. He's a buddy of ours.
Speaker 2 00:56:01 Yeah. That got to go to his shop, met him, you know, all that good stuff. He's a great dude. Shout out Spencer Boyd. Hell yeah. Um, it's uh, ends up beating Johnny Solder cuz Johnny Soder got lost with NASCAR's broomstick somewhere. Ooh. I'm not sure what he was doing with it. Yeah. Shoved the sideways up there. That was his exact words. Y I forgot something. I forgot something like that. He, he, uh, he Johnny Solder ends up winning the race and gets disqualified for the yellow line rule. Which is the worst rule in nascar. I'm just gonna go ahead and say it. Worst rule in nascar, they could change nothing about nascar but that, and I'd be happy And um, Johnny Solder gets called for it. You're not allowed to to Lindsay. Lindsay Smith. My girlfriend hates the yellow line rule. That's the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 2 00:56:38 The yellow line rule she wants settle is only at Talladega and Daytona. And guess what? After Atlanta don't, we have three plate tracks now Atlanta, now three plate tracks now. And my favorite part about the yellow line rule is how the next week they have to tell you that there's no out bounds anymore. Yeah. It's the, I hate it so much. Mike Joy always says it. Uh, it gets us so old. But the yellow line rule, you cannot go below the yellow line to advance your position or make a pass or do anything crazy down there. You can go under it. You get forced not doing anything. Yeah. You can get forced down there. Like if somebody hits you and you're just trying to correct, it's fine. But if you go into that area, it's outta bound. You're not allowed to make passes there. Johnny Solder does that.
Speaker 2 00:57:15 He wins the race. Spencer's just right in second right behind him. They disqualified. Johnny Solder send him to the back and Spencer Boyd ends up winning that race and cool as hell. I'm so glad Spencer Boyd win. Oh, it was the coolest moment of our entire NASCAR going into the race. We were wearing, we were wearing Spencer Boyd shirts and everything. Yeah. Like losing our minds was great. It was awesome. Probably the only two people with Spencer Boyd shirts. There may have been a few other scattered around, but we were all on board. Dude, good job. Let's hope you get another one coming up in the, it'll be in the fall, but let's hope he gets another one at some point. Yeah. Cause it's this year just bush racing this weekend. I think so. Yeah. Just bush racing. So Bush. Hell yeah. Bush man. Genius.
Speaker 2 00:57:56 <laugh>. So throw back, who's gonna win this race? Oh man, that is a great question. So shout out RFK here. Uh, my money will be on the sixth and the 17 mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So, uh, they led a shit ton of lapse at the Daytona 500. They, uh, the six car also led a shit ton of lapse at Atlanta, which is now the plate track. So my first ever NASCAR be that hit was putting money on Buscher top five in Daytona 500. So it's a great time. I'll uh, I'll take that, take that for what it's worth. Thank you Chris Buscher. But yeah, um, I mean I'm, I'm going Blaney all the way. Blaney's my guy. He's blaney's a great flight race. He's a great flight race. So put phenomenal. Blaney's a great pick. If, uh, Mike's a great pick. Yeah. If you're going, we're, while we talk about favorites, we talking about betting all his odds will be higher than the sixth and 17.
Speaker 2 00:58:49 So if you wanna win some money, put 'em on the sixth and the 17. Yeah. Lot more value there. I think they can definitely pull something out like crazy. Um, I mean I'm, I'm definitely looking towards Hamlin and Blaney Hamlin's incredible plate racing. Yeah. Uh, chase Elliott is always gonna be a solid pick. Uh, it's a little bit weird now that he's coming back in. I mean, I'm not gonna say that he's lost anything, but it's definitely like coming back from vacation to go to your job, you're gonna have a little bit of rustiness, you gotta shake off a little thing. Yep. But I could totally see him coming out here and skunking the field and then everything thing in Talladega County is gonna be on fire. So I was there also for his win in 2019. So we come back to like where the campers and shit are just shit's burning the ground. Not our campers not burning the ground, but like, there are so many probably would've been if you stayed there. Things that were on fire in that damn outfield spot out there. I was like, I mean this had to be what it was like to watch Dale Jr. Win in like 2007, you know? Mm-hmm. <affirmative> never got to witness that unfortunately. But, uh, yeah, people set shit on fire when in a good, not like a pissed off way. They set shit on fire because they're like, fuck yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:59:54 We call him Freedom Fire.
Speaker 2 00:59:55 Yeah. Freedom Fire. That's what was going on. He was in the Little Caesar's car too, so like Oh yeah. That was like pizza. Pizza every, everybody loves Little Caesars Hot ready, like come on hot and ready. Your couch
Speaker 3 01:00:04 Is hot and
Speaker 2 01:00:04 Ready. Way too much. Shit. Let's just be honest. Little Caesars is fucking good, so. No, it's awesome man. You get stopped at We're we're on a, we're on a long bus ride and we get stopped at a gas station. It's got a little Caesar's dispensary thing in there, man. Yeah. They don't even have to talk to you. They already know what you're there for, sir. You're not there for conversation. You're there for a hot and ready pepperoni square. Probably got more bread on it than it needs and you're just gonna love every second and it tastes great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 01:00:28 Those, those deep dish hot and ready or
Speaker 2 01:00:29 Love them. Yeah, that's exactly, that's exactly, that's what he's talking about. Love 'em. Yeah. Love them. Definitely man. Amazing. Don't get the wings though. They're there for pizza. Pizza. Only
Speaker 3 01:00:36 The $5 pizza. Not quite as good in my opinion. I like, I like to compare things to Domino's and I would rather have dominoes than the $5 pizza, but that, that's
Speaker 2 01:00:45 A dish. That's a good baseline.
Speaker 3 01:00:46 You know, I will take that deep
Speaker 2 01:00:48 Dish. We were, you remember we were talking about, uh, our first ever experience brushing a race with Matt Burrell. Matt Burrell introduced me to Cheesy Bread that had like jalapenos and bacon, orange, Dominos Berell. Bro, that's life changing. He's
Speaker 3 01:01:02 Out there with his hand like this.
Speaker 2 01:01:05 This is coming, coming from the like biggest pizza snob I know in Matt Burrell. Dude loves the cheesy bread from Domino's and lemme just say the cheesy bread from Domino's top tier. If you never had it go get you something better than the pizza. Uh, but other favorites though, co of Joy. You're gonna wanna put money on toilet, on toilet joy. He's going to run top five if he doesn't wreck. And his odds are gonna be dog trash. Yeah. So put put money on Corey Lejo. I have already won money on him and play. I've won money on the six, the 17 and the seven in plate races this year. So put money on Corey Lejo. I'm telling you the three bats I'm gonna make. So. Yeah, absolutely. And uh, Denny, if he doesn't speed, if he doesn't speed on pit road, he'll be there.
Speaker 2 01:01:46 He'll be there. Uh, that's definitely gonna become a segment. Is Denny Hamlin speeding on Pit Road? If it happens, we'll have to mention it. And we love Denny Hamlin. I, yeah, absolutely. His podcast has been one of the best. His podcast is the greatest thing that ever happened to nascar. Yes. Oh yeah. Without a doubt. So I'm pretty pumped. Like I said, Talladega is the my favorite weekend of the two weekends of the year. Love the race. Love the type of racing, love being there. Like yeah. Can't I have no complaints to T Dega? I love Taladega. Some people shit on pack racing and plate racing. I don't listen to those opinions. Yeah. I am a advocate for loving Talladega in Daytona and now Atlanta. And if you're still hanging out with us and you've never watched a NASCAR race before, I'm telling you just look at the first 20 cars that are starting to race and pick one.
Speaker 2 01:02:29 Any one of them can win. Yeah. It's the greatest time to pick a new driver for you. Your favorite driver. Yeah. This is you just pick the wrong one. The coolest colored car. Without a doubt. That's what a lot of people, I can't wait to see some of the paint schemes that come out for this week. There, there's always great ones. Tell I want to have a part of this podcast where we do talk about paint schemes because me, it's like I'm a kind of obsessed with the paint schemes and stuff, whether I love them or they're just complete dog shit. So I'd love to have a good, like, best podcast or a best paint job of the week and worst paint job of the week. When are we all that would be if we're voting, I'm, I'm voting Kevin Harvick's real tree scheme this week.
Speaker 2 01:03:02 How about we call, he ran it last week. How about, oh, or you talking about four this week? Oh, I was just talking about previous week. So I got I gotcha. I thought you about for this week. Yeah, sorry. Just I'm, that's gonna be my quick vote. Trading paint, trading paint, trading paint. That's pretty good. Little segment time. I that I love that trading paint. Love that. Absolutely love that. I just came up with that literally off the top of my head. You're welcome. I'm not even high. Me little. Not even high. I need a little get a little bit of your magic today. I don't even, I didn't even know. Blew my mind right there. Trading and paint. Hell no. I'm here for love. Also trading and paint. Like someone write that in the notes. I don't have a pen. I got it. Hell yeah.
Speaker 2 01:03:34 Love that real tree car though. This weekend. For real. It was great. So I mean off the, off the top of the head. That's my vote. I don't really have another pick off the top of my head. I'm taking Larson's paint job. Sorry. Won the race. He runs it every week. It's boring. No, it's fine. It's Ricky's. It is Ricky Hendrix. I know. It was a very emotional win. I'll, I'll give it to him. I'll give it to him. Uh, but real tree, you got my vote. Welcome to it. Um, but I mean to end this, I think, yeah, I assume we're getting close on time. Yeah, I think we're, I think we're right at the end of it. To end this, do we want to tell like the lingering Talladega story from 2019? One last story before we sign off today? Yeah, one last story of my broken ribs that are still, this was the most incredible moment of the entire weekend and the fact that he tripped through it.
Speaker 2 01:04:19 So we go, so like I said, we're, that's the race from the dock cast. It's October of 2019 and uh, it's me, Caleb, and my dad that race that weekend. It's after that race actually. It's the Saturday night after this race. Yep. After that race, before this one. I go um, nope, that is wrong. That's before. Cuz you weren't there. You were there. So that's wrong. You're, you were getting into town. That's so this is probably Friday night. Friday night for beer. Oh, you're right. There was a lot of beer drinking talladegas. So believe that details are fuzzy. Always fuzzy details. Those four of this race, excuse me, me and my dad, we go to the old, uh, there's a Talladega short track's what it's called. It's just a little dirt track. Literally track, mantic ring, Mr. Short track. So Mr. Short track, it's right across the street.
Speaker 2 01:04:57 Short track. They run all kinds of shit there. You know, it's great. It's a good time. There's late models, all this stuff. I mean it's packed out cuz I mean, it's the weekend of Tyler that we're over there and me and Dad are chilling. You know, you can bring your own cooler beer in. We're sitting there bringing beer. If you don't like NASCAR for anything else, that's what you should love it for. You can bring coolers in. There's this old woman with like, her old lady with like her tits out and she's like, got silence. Like, little mama needs some money or something like that. I have a picture of that on my phone. She's like at the fence <laugh>. So anyway, that's just like my recollection of what's going on. Me and my dad are sitting there and we're like, you know, drinking some beers, whatever.
Speaker 2 01:05:29 I had no work, been drinking beers all day. He had to work. So he is coming into town, calls me up, he parks the truck and I'm, I'm like, so the racetrack, I don't visually we're sitting like this. Stan are over here. He's on the turn one and two and he's parked over in this area. Like kind of around turn. I'm parked in like the turn two outfield area. Yes. So I've gotta walk around, turn one to get there. But I don't know if looking at the track, I can't tell what turn I'm at. Yes. It's hard to tell. So I'm on the phone, him like getting around to where we need to be and been drinking all day. But the, I seriously think this would've happened sober or drunk. I swear to God it's pitch black. I mean it's pitch black, dark. It's dusty as hell talking on the phone to Caleb, you know, yada yada.
Speaker 2 01:06:11 There's a dude, dude, one single dude walking at me and dude, I just fall in a hole. I just hear <laugh>. All I hear is in a hole and talking like this. And my whole side right here on my left side hits this, hits the ground and it just goes. And I'm like, oh fuck. Oh, I can hear it on the phone. This man's body crumpling underneath. I felt my body crush. And it was, dude, it's funny how quick you got that going too. Dude walks by me. He was like, he, he, this is exactly what this dude says. Don't know him. Shout out to you though. He goes, dude, you all right? And I was like, yeah. He's like, I'm just gonna act like I didn't see that. I was like, thank you <laugh>. Best part of the whole story right there. Randy dude just, just keeps walking.
Speaker 2 01:06:53 He can't see it. Dude, dude, I stand up. I'm in the worst pan I've ever felt in my life. I can't breathe. I'm just like, oh. So anyway, get Caleb <laugh>. We come back and I hear him. He is like, man, I just fell in a hole. And he is like, still can't, trying to figure out where I'm at and trying to catch his, his breath, breathe. I'm worried to a certain extent, but he's kind of being a little cheery about it. So that's rough. How bad could it have been? So that's the first night in Dega that we got. Actually we might have got there Thursday, I think f so like the second night in Dega Is that, that's that night. And man I'm there and I'm just like, Ooh, you know, something doesn't feel right. You know, whatever. I'm just like screwed up.
Speaker 2 01:07:30 Uh, there's a Cody Johnson song that's got the lyrics. Even my pain is hurt, my pain is hurting. So that all weekend, dude, I couldn't bend over or anything. I am fucked up dude. I'm dying. So the be this story continues because I'm still like my ribs on this side are straight, like right here, straight. I have like an indention right here underneath me. Right here from Talladega. From Talladega. And like I had this weird pain in my back that like still hurt. So I didn't have before that fall. And uh, me and my family, it just happened to work out. We had a little vacation planned to go to the beach and it's after that Ta Dega race. And dude, my mom is like, are you all right? I'm just like, ooh. I'm just like, can't move. I'm stiff as board dude. I am broken.
Speaker 2 01:08:12 I am chopped up broken. But shout out to Dawson man. He still enjoyed his entire weekend. Still didn't sleep in straight out till about 5:00 AM his dad. Every, his dad wakes us up at 8:00 AM every morning making breakfast. Even though we were up till five, he would not let us sleep in. Did not give a day. Great. The breakfast sandwiches that my dad makes for Daygo. Only reason I was able to incredible actually wake up. But yeah, plenty of, plenty of crazy stuff happens at Talladega. We've got more stories. We're just gonna have to save 'em for next week. So I think we're short on, we'll, we'll talk about it next week after Dega. Yeah. We got plenty of great Dega stories. Yeah. And we'll the race next week's gonna, or this week is gonna be, it's gonna be incredible. So like we'll have plenty to talk about. We'll have plenty to talk about next week. It'll probably just be all about Dega. I don't even know what race is after Dega. Yeah, I couldn't tell you cause I'm looking forward to this one. But, uh, either way I think that's enough about Dega. Uh, so they're going to Dover next week, so we'll talk about that. Be Dega and Dover. That'll be great. I'm here for that man. Yeah man, this has been a great first one I feel like. Yeah. Great. First one.
Speaker 3 01:09:08 Great,
Speaker 2 01:09:08 Great. First one, how do you feel Nikki? T I
Speaker 3 01:09:10 Love it man. Tell everybody where they can follow each of you guys on the social media Internets.
Speaker 2 01:09:14 Um, so mine and everything I have is Dawson Edwards music. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, that's, you just looked that up on anything. You'll find me. We are going to have Ray Rowdy racing, uh, Instagram, Twitters tos, YouTubes, all that. Uh, had this. We'll get those sandals at you soon. Logos. I, I'm, I don't, I look, I think we're gonna be able to use raise rowdy racing for everything, so Oh, hopefully so. Yeah. That, that should beaming for, but if it needs to be something different, we'll let you know once we get 'em fired in. Yeah. Yeah. So Dawson Ever's music for me and that's, you can find me on everything and I am, I am under either Caleb Conrey or Caleb Khan Rowdy, uh, on ig on the, on the Instagram. And I wanna say it's my TikTok handle too, but I'll have to get back at you on that one. I haven't posted one. Yeah. So that's what we're hitting on all these and find us there. And then also, uh, y'all had a shout out too.
Speaker 3 01:09:57 Yeah. You guys can follow along on ra roddy.com. You'll see some ra Roddy racing posts, um, on our website as well. Uh, so make sure you check that out. We'll have those bets that the boys are gonna be putting in this week as well. Yes
Speaker 2 01:10:09 Sir.
Speaker 3 01:10:11 The recap. So we appreciate y'all listening to the first ever Ra Roddy Racing podcast. Hell
Speaker 2 01:10:16 Loved it. Hell a blast. Well, we'll see y'all next week folks. Thanks for listening and uh, Dawson, here's hoping none of your bits hitting all of mine. End up slamming. You can kiss my ass cause you probably won't place none of the same ones I do. So straighten the hell up, man. 12 all the way <laugh> <laugh>. Thank y'all for listening. All right. We'll see y'all. This is
Speaker 3 01:10:34 Raise Roddy Racing.
Speaker 0 01:10:36 Pow.
Speaker 4 01:10:37 Don't drive a car and my truck can't paint in black. It ain't gotta be white. Number three turning lift around the track, but you can hear me from a mile and a half away. Handle
Speaker 0 01:11:06 By.
