S2 Episode 10: Talking Texas w/ Stephen Paul

[00:00:05] Speaker A: This is Ray's rowdy racing with Caleb Conrady and Dawson Edwards. Beautiful people, welcome back. Another episode raised Raddy racing post Texas. I got a special guest in the queue up today. [00:00:25] Speaker B: Second ever in person or, well, second ever actual guest we have right now. [00:00:30] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a big deal. [00:00:33] Speaker A: We're going to be talking with Stephen Paul today, songwriter extraordinaire, traveling the country. [00:00:38] Speaker C: Doing crazy shit, and just got done. [00:00:41] Speaker A: Being at Texas all weekend, doing some performances out there. [00:00:45] Speaker C: So welcome to it, Stephen. How we doing? [00:00:48] Speaker D: Excited to be here. I feel like I've cheated the system a little bit. I mean, I'm brand new to NASCAR, and I'm already on this world famous podcast, so I'm just. I'm excited to be here, man. [00:00:58] Speaker A: World famous to the seven people across. [00:01:00] Speaker B: The world, this podcast. Hey, man. [00:01:03] Speaker C: Hey. [00:01:03] Speaker D: I listen to it religiously. I do. I text y'all every week and like, hey, man, good one. This week. I, you know, I've been running a lot, so. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Yeah, you're giving Randy Adams a run for his money on number one fan. [00:01:14] Speaker C: Of the pod now. [00:01:15] Speaker D: Good. [00:01:16] Speaker B: And a run for his money because. Because Randy Adams runs. [00:01:19] Speaker A: Yeah, he truly runs for his money. [00:01:22] Speaker B: Um, all right, let's give a little backstory here. Obviously, Stephen, we know you very well. I have known you for going on nine years now. I still have your name on my. [00:01:32] Speaker C: Phone as Stephen Newman, which. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Which is not what most people know you as nowadays. So give everyone just a quick little rundown about you, and then give us. [00:01:43] Speaker C: A quick little rundown of your new. [00:01:46] Speaker B: NASCAR fandom you have going on since the Netflix series. [00:01:51] Speaker C: Yes. [00:01:51] Speaker D: A spoiler alert. My last name is Newman. Paul's my middle name. I switched over to that around 2017. I believe it just. Stephen Paul is a little easier to say than Stephen Newman. There's nothing fancy about it. Whatever. But, yeah, born and raised in West Monroe, Louisiana, for those who don't know where, Westmore, Louisiana. If you've ever heard of the tv show Duck dynasty, that's where I was born and raised. Hell, yeah. So that's. That's why you know exactly where I'm from. [00:02:18] Speaker C: Like I said, I met. [00:02:18] Speaker D: I met you guys early on, Dawson. Really early on. I've been living in Nashville for. It'll be ten years in October. So within about the first year, we became buddies and been writing songs and all that ever since. And, yeah, I've become a new NASCAR fan. Obviously, I knew that y'all love NASCAR, and, you know, I've given it a shot through the years. I just it's kind of those things I never just got into. I don't know if it was just the timing or I was busy or just, you know, just didn't want to give it a chance yet, for whatever reason. But maybe this is sad to real NASCAR fans, but maybe it's a good thing as well. The Netflix series actually got me really invested. I love sports in general, and watching that show really explained to the dummy and me, who knows nothing about NASCAR, how NASCAR works on the base level and just kind of gave me that foundation. And once I kind of knew sort of how the sport works, it's just like, all right, well, let's dive into this thing. And, man, I've been obsessed ever since, you know, and lucky for me, this, this year has been an incredible year so far. I know you guys have been excited the way this year has turned out, especially some of the races you didn't think we're going to be good have ended up being really good. [00:03:31] Speaker C: So. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Yeah, you ain't. [00:03:33] Speaker D: I know y'all are excited for a lot more people to come enjoy the sport, too. So I've had a lot of fun exchanging messages and all that with y'all throughout the weeks. [00:03:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I was going to bring up the group chat us. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Do you have a group chat that we light up every kind of, kind of Friday, Saturday, Sunday. But as the Friday, Saturday, Sunday goes by, the text get more in depth and there's more, more abundance of text. [00:03:58] Speaker C: As the three days go by. Heck, yeah. [00:04:00] Speaker A: It has been. It's been a lot of fun having it just every single morning, Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to getting the message. It's always, Steven, somehow you're always the first one. It's race time, boys. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I feel like the last eight races, I've been rushing my ass off to get to wherever I was going to watch it in time to start it. And it's always right as I'm getting. [00:04:21] Speaker C: About close to settled. [00:04:23] Speaker A: Steven, you'll just text and be like, racetime, boys. [00:04:25] Speaker C: Let's go. [00:04:26] Speaker A: And it cracked me up every time. [00:04:28] Speaker C: You're. [00:04:28] Speaker A: You kind of fell in love with it the same way I did, whereas. [00:04:31] Speaker C: Like, you just watched one and then. [00:04:34] Speaker A: Just got hooked immediately and just turned into a huge fan of it so fast. [00:04:38] Speaker C: So I know you've been learning a lot as things go by. [00:04:41] Speaker A: How is your, what's your reaction to. [00:04:43] Speaker C: The start of the season and what's been your favorite race so far? [00:04:49] Speaker D: Well, the, for me, it's been exciting all the way through. Even some of the short track races, you know, they had really cool finishes. Even if they were a little boring throughout the race or whatever, they still have good finishes. It have to be Atlanta for me. I mean, obviously the historical finish three. [00:05:05] Speaker C: Why? [00:05:06] Speaker D: Like, that was crazy. You know, which, that's one of those. [00:05:10] Speaker C: One of those races that you may. [00:05:12] Speaker D: See once in your life like that, you know, if, you know, or once a decade, who knows? But, you know, but I've honestly enjoyed every single race so far. I'm still learning different tracks and styles and racing. I wasn't a huge fan of the road map or the road race or whatever. Yeah, I think that's going to be. [00:05:34] Speaker B: You're not the only one, so that's okay. [00:05:35] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:05:36] Speaker D: Just because I didn't grow up racing cars, so it's hard for me to really understand like just the talent that it takes to run those types of courses and the strategy and all that. So it's going to take me a little longer to get into those. But honestly, I've, I've just enjoyed every race. I mean, there hasn't been one that I've just been like, ah, you know, whatever. Like, you know, like you say it all the time, Dawson. It's just like any race is a good race if it's, you know, watching drinking beer and watch racing on Sunday, you know? So, yeah, I can't complain too much. Yeah, maybe next year when I learn more I'll start complaining a little bit more. [00:06:07] Speaker C: Totally. You aren't. [00:06:09] Speaker A: You definitely cross over as a NASCAR fan from like beginner fan where you're excited about everything. [00:06:15] Speaker C: Speaking from experience, beginner fan, were you excited about everything? [00:06:20] Speaker A: Even the bad races are fun because it's just stuff you've never seen before. And eventually you hit this crossover point. [00:06:26] Speaker C: Where it's just like your tweets go. [00:06:28] Speaker A: From super positive to bitching about everything and replying to Bob packers asking him. [00:06:32] Speaker C: If he has lights on anything. So it's real funny to watch the. [00:06:36] Speaker A: Transition happen for somebody else and watch somebody else as they're kind of coming. [00:06:41] Speaker C: Into the sport and being just super. [00:06:43] Speaker A: Excited with fresh eyes, sometimes it can. [00:06:45] Speaker C: Really open up even the stuff that we complain about. It's like, well, somebody with fresh eyes. [00:06:50] Speaker A: Is enjoying it, so, hell, it can't really be too bad. [00:06:52] Speaker C: And it definitely seems to be working. [00:06:54] Speaker A: This year for NASCAR, especially after, like you said, some of the historic finishes we've already had. [00:06:59] Speaker C: I mean, shoot, you even had this. [00:07:01] Speaker A: Weekend at Texas with the Xfinity series. [00:07:03] Speaker C: Finishing by I think NASCAR hasn't put it best. [00:07:06] Speaker A: He's like, man, everything's bigger in Texas, but they only won by the width of M and M's. [00:07:10] Speaker C: Peanut. [00:07:10] Speaker A: Peanut. [00:07:11] Speaker D: M and M. Yeah, that was, man, that was an exciting race. And I was actually in the pit. [00:07:17] Speaker C: Box at the finish. [00:07:19] Speaker A: You, weren't you? [00:07:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I was. [00:07:21] Speaker D: I was right across. I mean, it was like maybe at like 02:00 from me. I mean, I was right. I was in Cole's pit box. So it was, it was pretty cool. And it'd been a long time since I'd only been to Bristol once. That was my only nascar, you know, experience. So just be able to hear the guys talking on the radio and stuff like that, again, was cool to experience. [00:07:40] Speaker C: Heck, yeah. So it's got to be wild to. [00:07:42] Speaker A: Only have seen a few of them and then getting to sit on the pit box. What was your reaction to all the. [00:07:47] Speaker C: Radio chatter that was going on in your head? [00:07:49] Speaker D: Man, it was cool. It's still mind blowing to me a little bit that the casual fan can just listen in on the radio. I mean, I just feel like that's such a sacred thing because, like, to me, I would never think, well, I could never listen to what they're telling Tom Brady or Patrick Holmes. Like, why do I get to, you know, it's, it's a little, it's a crazy, but I do love that. I think that's my favorite thing about. [00:08:11] Speaker C: NASCAr, is that it's so inclusive to. [00:08:13] Speaker D: Like, everybody and, like, it's so hands on to the casual fan that you can buy. You can buy a ticket to go to the garage and see the guys right there. I mean, I was. I even told, haven't even told you this. Uh, but I was 5ft from Kyle Larson while he was taking signing autographs in the garage Sunday, which is crazy. [00:08:32] Speaker C: I mean, he's, he's one of the. [00:08:33] Speaker D: Megastars in the sport, and I'm just right there beside him, like, right before he races, which is crazy, which is cool. [00:08:39] Speaker C: That is awesome, man. Yeah. [00:08:42] Speaker B: That is a. The pit box is by far the coolest experience to watch race. [00:08:47] Speaker C: Like, you get. [00:08:48] Speaker B: You just get everything. You're also shaded, not in the sun, which is awesome. [00:08:53] Speaker C: But then, like, just, you have every piece. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Not that even any of us know what all the information means, but you have every piece of information right in front of you. [00:09:02] Speaker C: You're listening to the scanner, you're right. [00:09:04] Speaker B: Behind the crew chief that's making all the calls. You know, it's just the whole, that's if there's anywhere to watch a race, that's the place, you know, pit box. [00:09:15] Speaker C: Yeah, it was. [00:09:16] Speaker D: It was incredible weekend, man. It was a top to bottom. We can get more into it if you want me to, but just. And especially, like, my girlfriend being there with me and she had never, like, I'm trying to get her in an s car, it's, you know, it's going to be a work in progress, but the fact that, you know, any live sporting event is just better when you're there, you know, and just for her to, like, be there and get that kind of experience and just feel the cars and their power and how loud they are, just like the whole thing, man, it's. I can't repeat some of the things we said in the group chat, but you know how I feel about what I need those cars. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Yeah, we definitely had a lot of fun things to say on that. That was a good time. [00:09:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like I also. I bring. [00:09:57] Speaker C: I don't bring it up every week, but it. [00:10:00] Speaker B: The more races that go by in. [00:10:02] Speaker C: The last maybe 18 months, kind of. [00:10:05] Speaker B: Like since this podcast, the more people. [00:10:09] Speaker C: Like, after a race, like Lindsey is all in. [00:10:13] Speaker B: You got my dad, you got my. My mom and sister. We're in a group chat. We're doing like a fantasy thing now. [00:10:19] Speaker C: Um, when used to, it was kind. [00:10:22] Speaker B: Of like me and my dad always talk about racing, but, you know, like, just me and Caleb or me and someone else, but now it's like everyone. I don't know. I don't know if it's the. If it's because, like, I'm such a big fan. Like, we're such big fans. It just kind of, like, bleeds off into other people or, like, because people are really interested in the racing. I don't know what it is, but there are more people in my, like. [00:10:42] Speaker C: Inner circle that I just talk about. [00:10:45] Speaker B: Racing with now, our group chat included, it's just like, there's racing talk to talk about all the time, and I freaking love it. [00:10:53] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:10:54] Speaker A: It's definitely a lot of fun. [00:10:56] Speaker C: And, uh, Stephen, you were there because. [00:10:59] Speaker A: Of Andy's frozen custard, right? [00:11:00] Speaker C: Was it them that had invited you out? Correct. [00:11:04] Speaker A: So they. [00:11:04] Speaker D: They sponsored the xfinity race, which is kind of crazy to see, like, just their name was there. Right, right. Which I didn't know that until you guys had texted me that. [00:11:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Sound like a multi year deal to keep doing it. Yeah. [00:11:18] Speaker D: So they. They did that. And my girlfriend is family friends with him. She grew up with some of their kids, and so I got to do a private event for them earlier in the year, and then they invited me to sing God bless America during the xfinity race, which was awesome, which I know you guys are singers, too, so, like, those types of songs make me more nervous than the most nerve wracking because everybody knows them and you don't. You don't like, if you do a great job, you just want to be, like, not remembered for it at all. It's like, oh, good job. Like, let's move on. Like, but it was. It was awesome. Did that, and then got to sing the national anthem at the dirt track, which there were so high winds, and they were packing everything down. They were delayed for about an hour, so my heart just beeped out of his chest, but it was like, you're. [00:12:06] Speaker C: About to strap in. Oh, yeah. [00:12:08] Speaker D: Oh, my goodness. But that was really cool, too, because Kyle Larson raced in the dirt. I think he owns that series. [00:12:15] Speaker B: He owns that series. [00:12:16] Speaker C: Yes. [00:12:16] Speaker D: Okay. [00:12:16] Speaker B: That is correct. [00:12:17] Speaker D: So he raced in, and I'm pretty sure Ricky stint house was in it. [00:12:21] Speaker C: It was. [00:12:21] Speaker D: There's three or four cup guys that were racing, which is really cool that, you know, they got a huge race the next morning. They're out here, you know, essentially looks what looks like to me go cars. But they have, which I learned those have way more horsepower than the cup cars, which is crazy. [00:12:37] Speaker B: Way more dangerous, way more everything. [00:12:39] Speaker A: No freaking doubt about it. I will say power to, like, the. The weight to horsepower ratio is like one to one or something about as. [00:12:46] Speaker C: Much horsepower as they weigh, which is. Which is insane. [00:12:51] Speaker D: Yeah, I think we didn't get to finish the finale. We had. We had to leave. But I think when I saw it, three or four cars, like, we're doing somersaults. [00:13:01] Speaker B: I mean, really, really bad wreck. I don't know if you were there from that, but a guy flipped and then another guy just hits him while he was upside down. [00:13:10] Speaker C: Like, he's upside down. [00:13:11] Speaker B: This is the front of his car just runs up under him right in his face. [00:13:15] Speaker C: And, yeah, I told. [00:13:18] Speaker B: It's super cool to me, that's almost. [00:13:20] Speaker A: Is for you to go to do. [00:13:21] Speaker B: That is almost as cool as doing the cup race, in my opinion, because having. I love when there is a dirt race, they can incorporate some of these other series in with a Cup Series race. And there was so much hop. Like, I already, I told you this on the group chat, but there was a pretty much every NASCAR podcast that I listened to last week. They were all planning to go. [00:13:45] Speaker C: So that's what I tell you. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Outside of just the, you know, three or four drivers you saw there. And you also saw, like, guys like Brad Sweet, who is one of the most successful 410 sprint car drivers of all time. He owns that. [00:13:57] Speaker C: Yes. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Kyle Larson's brother in law. They own that series together. It's called the holiday racing series. [00:14:02] Speaker C: And just like, people that were there. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Not, like I said, not the drivers people are there, like, all the big time people. And Kyle and Brad are doing so much to try to. I mean, it kind of seems like they originally said they didn't want to be a threat to outlaw series, but now it's like they're racing at all their racetracks and hiring all their people. And I think this is Kyle Larson's retirement plan. It just look at it from the outside in. So they're hiring all the right people. [00:14:27] Speaker C: All the events they, they kind of talked about, too. [00:14:31] Speaker B: I'm not trying to get too far off track here, but I just wanted to say that was, it's cool that you were there and all the stuff. [00:14:36] Speaker A: They'Re doing with it. [00:14:37] Speaker C: And there's been races where, like, the. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Brad and Kyle said that, you know, drivers didn't get paid much as they should, and the teams didn't get paid much as they should. So they straight up just put their money where their mouth is. Started a series, and now every single race they run is a high money race. They get big time drivers there, and. [00:14:53] Speaker C: It just is, uh, it's only its second season, and it's freaking wow on. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Cup race weekends now. So they're. [00:14:59] Speaker C: They're doing well. Yeah, no doubt. [00:15:02] Speaker A: I didn't even know half of that. That was all. That was an education for me, too. [00:15:06] Speaker B: I just know it all. I grew up in the dirt track. That's how I became a NASCAR fan, is the dirt track world. [00:15:14] Speaker C: Sprint cars aren't, sprint cars aren't super. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Popular in my exact neck of the woods, but late model racing is super popular. But then everyone, there's late model fans and there's sprint car racing fans, and they like to fight and argue about who's better and who's the best and what the best series is and all that. And I have personally only seen the world of outlaws race twice in my life. And the world of Outlaws is the NASCAR version of Sprint car and late moderation. [00:15:41] Speaker C: That's like your, that's your big time. [00:15:44] Speaker B: Guys and all that stuff. So let's say we can go back to NASCAR, but just want to throw it out there. [00:15:48] Speaker C: I thought, it's really cool that you. [00:15:50] Speaker B: Got to do that. [00:15:51] Speaker D: No, it was, it was awesome. It was a huge event. I kind of compared it to, like, I know you have these, and so does Texas, these huge high school teams where, you know, you got tens of thousands of fans, and they stand. It kind of felt like that felt like a huge high school football game where it's just like, I was like, wow, all these people, like, this is crazy. You know, it was, there was a. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Lot of people there, and people are. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Drawn to that, like, local feel as well. [00:16:14] Speaker D: Right. [00:16:15] Speaker B: It's even more local than NASCAR, you know, than a NASCAR race, you know? And, like, a lot of those guys, they'll, uh. That's, uh, how one of the reasons without side of cow being so popular, uh, and all these dirt track races he does and goes to, he stands at his hauler and signs autographs for the hundreds of people that come in. People take pictures of him every single weekend signing at his hauler, and people. [00:16:35] Speaker C: Are just funneled in, and they don't. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Have to have a special pass to do that. [00:16:39] Speaker C: Nothing. [00:16:39] Speaker B: If you go to the race, they don't. They park the haulers outside the racetrack. You can go over there, and if. [00:16:44] Speaker C: You want to get a Kyle Larson. [00:16:46] Speaker B: Autograph and shake his hand, you can. [00:16:47] Speaker C: Walk right up to him. So cool. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Unprecedented access. [00:16:52] Speaker C: It is. [00:16:53] Speaker A: And Joey Logano says, we're spoiled. [00:16:55] Speaker B: That is stupid statement that he made, and that was earlier in the year. I'm not even going into all that, but, you know, Joey Logano spoiled. [00:17:04] Speaker C: I'll say that. He could be. [00:17:05] Speaker A: His new hairline helps him out a lot. [00:17:08] Speaker C: No doubt. [00:17:09] Speaker D: He might. He might change his attitude. He hadn't been doing too well this year, so. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Dang, shots fired. [00:17:17] Speaker D: You know, I don't know, you know, I don't know when or why or how or why they're doing what they're doing, but all I know is that he hasn't been performing or their team. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Has it, so you ain't wrong. He's 15th and points right now. Just checked. [00:17:28] Speaker D: Well, I guess not as bad as I thought, because he was. I mean, the only race was for Laganna, though. [00:17:33] Speaker B: That still ain't good, right? [00:17:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:35] Speaker D: Right. Because he's, you know, he's one of the top, supposed to be one of the top dogs, right? [00:17:39] Speaker A: Yeah, he is, definitely. He's one of those generational talents that they like to talk about. He's got a lot of years left in him. Everybody's already pointing at him as a member of gonna gonna be up high on the all time NASCAR wins list because he started at eight and he's. [00:17:52] Speaker C: Already a two time champion. Yeah. [00:17:54] Speaker A: So being in 15th in points right now is definitely a lackluster year, especially considering that your teammate, twelve is in 7th. [00:18:01] Speaker C: So at least he's outperforming the two, though. I mean, there's. I don't know. [00:18:07] Speaker A: What else can I said about the two? [00:18:09] Speaker B: What is up with the two car, man? Also, man, he came out of xfinity and I was like, he comes out of xfinity and I was like, this dude's going to light the world on fire. He went to Daytona 500, and if he wouldn't have won the Daytona 500 his rookie season, I don't even know if people would know who Austin centric is anymore. [00:18:28] Speaker C: Yeah. And it goes how fast, like, things. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Can change in this sport. If you're. If you're not, if you're not up there and you're not getting the finishes, nobody's talking to you. And as soon as nobody's talking to you, you are forgotten about in a way. [00:18:41] Speaker C: And it is. [00:18:43] Speaker B: I kind of feel like it's do or die time for the two car, in my opinion. [00:18:46] Speaker A: I agree. [00:18:47] Speaker C: This. [00:18:48] Speaker A: This race didn't help them out either. [00:18:50] Speaker B: It's just awful. They don't unload with speed. They don't qualify well. They don't run well. They don't get stage points. [00:18:55] Speaker A: It's a wild time. [00:18:56] Speaker B: They don't do anything different to try to get stage points. So I really don't. [00:19:00] Speaker C: I have no idea. Yep. [00:19:02] Speaker A: I don't know. It's either, I guess. [00:19:04] Speaker C: What? [00:19:04] Speaker A: They'll have to go to the Austin Dylan route and get a new crew chief and see how that does form. [00:19:08] Speaker B: Oh, since you brought it up. Okay, let's talk about it. [00:19:13] Speaker A: I'm ready. I have been waiting for this moment since Sunday night. [00:19:17] Speaker B: I have never owned a pair of blue sunglasses in my life. And I guess, like, since I've known Caleb, no matter what, he always has a pair of blue sunglasses. He also loses sunglasses more than anyone I've ever met. So even when he loses them the next day or week, there's another new. [00:19:35] Speaker C: Pair of blue ray bans coming in. Okay, so I. [00:19:41] Speaker A: My ray bans, I didn't got that kind of money, but. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Well, here. Aviators. Well, these right here, these are the. The fake ray bans. Only cost of $15. The fake ordered them a couple weeks ago. Well, they came in yesterday, and since I was like, well, Caleb's gonna give me all this shit. [00:20:00] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:20:01] Speaker B: Austin Dillon to finish top ten, I was like, well, I just gotta. Since Caleb's the NASCAR guru now, I want to be like him. [00:20:07] Speaker C: So I'm gonna wear blue sunglasses just. [00:20:11] Speaker A: To remind those that may have missed it. And Stephen, I know you heard it last week on the podcast, I predicted Austin Dillon was going to finish in the top ten. [00:20:19] Speaker C: I placed a bet on it. I put so much confidence to finish top ten. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Let me check is it's in my winning bet slips. Just winning bet slip here. It was the hammer of all hammers. I told everybody that this was going to happen. [00:20:37] Speaker C: No one wanted to believe in me. [00:20:40] Speaker A: Even I didn't fully believe in me. He was plus, plus 500 to get in the top ten and nailed that sucker. [00:20:48] Speaker C: He finished 7th. I told you he was going to. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Be all right by the end, but in the middle, I was getting a little nervous when he was running in his typical 30th place. [00:20:56] Speaker B: Those cautions definitely helped him. And me texting you definitely helped him more by jinxing me by saying that because throughout the whole deep in stage two, he was 30th. It was. It was before those cautions all started running Willy Wonka. And then he'd stayed out and then caution came and all of that stuff. I'm not hating because you, no matter how you get it to top ten, so I'm not hating that he got a top ten. But I retweeted or no, I tweeted. [00:21:23] Speaker C: Out a tweet that said, uh, something. [00:21:26] Speaker B: Along the lines like, I wonder if that new crew chiefs helping the three car run in 30th and then the race was over. [00:21:31] Speaker C: I retweeted myself and said, like, uh. [00:21:34] Speaker B: Ad got a top ten or something like that. Like, I'll give credit where credit is due. And Kayla, I was like, hey, that was awesome. I'm glad you did it. But, yeah, he ran like shit all day. [00:21:44] Speaker C: He did. [00:21:45] Speaker B: And just finished well so I can at least hang my hat on. [00:21:48] Speaker C: That man. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Ran like shit all the way to a 7th place finish. My $1 turned into six, so I'll take it. Thank you. Austin Dillon. I take back all the mean things I said about you on Twitter two. [00:22:00] Speaker C: And a half years ago. [00:22:02] Speaker A: You're number one in my book for. [00:22:04] Speaker C: At least the next four or five days. Caleb's back. Austin Dillon hat. [00:22:08] Speaker A: I just might have to, man. As long as it's $6. Cause that's all I want on this bet. [00:22:13] Speaker B: Brutal. [00:22:15] Speaker A: I get a $6. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Austin Dylan betting man was, was one of the wildest weeks I've ever had. [00:22:20] Speaker C: Of NASCAR bets ever. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Stephen, have you started betting on NASCAR yet? [00:22:25] Speaker D: I haven't yet, which I don't even know. I know cause I'm back and forth between here in St. Louis a lot. You can't bet. And in Missouri yet. I don't know if you can bet in Texas. I know it's obviously legal here, and you can bet in Tennessee, so. So, yeah, most of the time, I'm out of town during the races, so I'm not able to bet yet. I don't. I don't think about it until it's race day. I'm like, oh, I should have put a bet, and then it's too late at that point. [00:22:51] Speaker C: Do you sports bet at all? [00:22:52] Speaker B: Is it. Do you do it at all? [00:22:54] Speaker D: Sometimes, but I'm not. I hate losing money more than I like winning money. So it's one of those things. [00:23:00] Speaker C: What, a quote. [00:23:01] Speaker D: Yeah, it's one of those things. Like, I might put $20 down and, like, say, the Falcons to win or cover spread, you know, just something like that. [00:23:07] Speaker B: But I wouldn't put $20 on the Falcons. Yeah, it's a good way to lose money. [00:23:13] Speaker D: Maybe this. [00:23:15] Speaker B: We're gonna get it turned around. [00:23:16] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:23:17] Speaker C: You'll. [00:23:18] Speaker A: No, no, you'll win everything except for Monday games. [00:23:21] Speaker C: Yeah, but it's. [00:23:22] Speaker D: You know, it's. Yeah, I'm not a big. I'm not a big gambler. I just. I don't do enough research, you know, I don't know enough about anything. Sports. Well, I know just enough, but just enough to, like, give me confidence. And then I'm gonna lose my money. [00:23:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Just enough confidence to lose it. [00:23:37] Speaker B: I. Undefeated basketball. College basketball. [00:23:41] Speaker C: Better. [00:23:41] Speaker B: I just want to hear that I heard their story. [00:23:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Yeah. I will never, probably ever put another college basketball bet down, but I just still want the world. No, I'm five for five. [00:23:50] Speaker C: Yep. [00:23:51] Speaker D: Keep it that way. [00:23:52] Speaker A: Batten 1000. I just didn't bat that much. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Oddly enough, I am in the green in NASCar betting. I mess up football bets, and I don't really bet on anything else except football in NASCAR. [00:24:03] Speaker C: But in NASCAR, even, like, on a. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Bad day, I still come out okay. [00:24:09] Speaker C: Which was, like, yesterday, but I had. [00:24:13] Speaker B: And I know I've already told you all this, but I haven't told the public this, but I had. I had a top ten bet on McDowell, who was close to Austin Dillon. [00:24:22] Speaker C: He was 450, and he ran in. [00:24:24] Speaker B: The top ten all day, and then. [00:24:26] Speaker C: Was in the top ten when he wrecked. [00:24:29] Speaker B: So I saw people that put live bets on him for a top five because the odds were so awesome to win money and everybody, he's got top five speed. He's got top five speed. And I was like, I had the top ten bet, you know, on this, and so that didn't work out. I had a bet on Larson to win, so he dominated for his wheel falls off. I had a bet on Reddick. He led plenty of laps, had the fastest car on the track at most. [00:24:53] Speaker C: Points during the day. That didn't work out. [00:24:56] Speaker B: I had a bet on Bubba Wallace. And Bubba, when I don't bet on him, he'll run good. And when I bet on him, he runs like he's never ran a race before. That's just my love. [00:25:06] Speaker D: Just wreck people. [00:25:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Especially Larson. [00:25:10] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:25:10] Speaker C: He pulled a Denny Hamlin at the. [00:25:12] Speaker B: End of the race, but in like, whatever the end of that stage was there. Just drove off in the corner and got loose and into the 14. Then he comes back and he's battling for the lead. And I felt good about it. And then he's back in like 20th, and then he finished like 7th or 6th or something. [00:25:28] Speaker C: I was like, what an up and. [00:25:29] Speaker B: Down day for him. [00:25:30] Speaker C: But, yeah, no, yeah. I still ended up hitting a couple. [00:25:35] Speaker B: Bets that paid out over $20 a piece. So I got my money back there. [00:25:39] Speaker C: You had Reddick top Toyota, which I didn't even hit. Notice that. [00:25:45] Speaker B: It hit till me and Kayla was on the phone. [00:25:47] Speaker C: And then I had a, I had. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Elliott over Blaney and Byron over Larson. And those that hit. So those are my two that hit that ended up. I ended up winning like 40 something bucks. [00:26:00] Speaker C: Nice. Which I bet $45 a weekend. [00:26:04] Speaker A: My only two that I ended up hitting were the Austin Dylan bet and Brad K in the top ten. [00:26:09] Speaker C: I almost. [00:26:09] Speaker A: I had Tyler Reddick as a top three. Well, technically, Allison had Tyler Reddick top three. [00:26:13] Speaker C: He finished in fourth. [00:26:15] Speaker A: I had bubble Wallace finished in top Toyota. He was the second Toyota. So all of my bets were just. [00:26:20] Speaker C: One position off of everything. Yeah. [00:26:24] Speaker A: Which is just the way it goes. [00:26:25] Speaker D: This weekend was a lot of luck, I think, as far as betting. I mean, I'm excited to talk about the race because I know you guys watched on tv and I was there. So it's hard. It was hard for me to, like, see everything, especially track where they're so spread out, where I'm looking this way and something happens over here and. Yeah, like, it was just total chaos from what I saw. [00:26:46] Speaker A: Oh, God. Especially once you got around to turn or stage three. I swear it just it turned into an all free for all. It was just who survives this. [00:26:54] Speaker C: This stage? Well, let's. Let's start it out with. With this. Both of y'all give me an answer. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Did you, for the Jeff Gluck poll, did you think Texas was a good race? [00:27:07] Speaker D: Yeah, I thought being there, I thought it was amazing. I mean, there was a lot of excitement. It was, you know, just when somebody started pulling way ahead and you think, man, this thing's just gonna run out, a caution would come out, they get grouped back together, and it just kept it. And maybe that's what made it exciting for me, was all the cautions that kept the race from being too boring. But, yeah, I mean, I enjoyed. I enjoyed the heck out of. I mean, what, there was, what, three overtimes or something. Something crazy like that to finish, which. [00:27:36] Speaker C: Yeah. And. [00:27:38] Speaker D: And then hearing the entire stands boo whenever Denny wrecks. I mean, it was crazy. [00:27:44] Speaker A: I wish I could have heard that, man. They were talking about it in the booth or cheer. [00:27:48] Speaker D: Not. Not boo. Sorry. Cheer. They were. They were booing, but they were cheering that he read. [00:27:52] Speaker C: So that was. [00:27:54] Speaker A: It was incredible. That's the best part about it, is when the polarizing guys have anything happen to him, especially Denny nowadays. [00:28:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I thought. [00:28:01] Speaker B: I thought the race was awesome. The uncertainty, which I have preached on. [00:28:07] Speaker C: This podcast all year long for 2024. [00:28:11] Speaker B: The uncertainty was at an all time high. You just said it like you never knew what was going to happen next. And as long as you never know what's going to happen, it's going to be a good race, in my opinion. And I know saying that every episode. [00:28:24] Speaker C: But when there's Texas was, you could. [00:28:27] Speaker B: See it in the corner turn one. Since its reconfiguration has been where you just can run just the inside lane. And they've done all this stuff with. [00:28:36] Speaker C: PJ one, and we're not even gonna. [00:28:38] Speaker B: Get into all that. [00:28:38] Speaker C: But you could see multiple grooves in the. [00:28:42] Speaker B: In the corners. There was. There was two lanes in the corners of the track, and that's an extra 1520 foot that hasn't been at that racetrack. [00:28:49] Speaker C: Since. [00:28:50] Speaker B: When did they reconfigure 2017, I think. [00:28:52] Speaker A: I can't even remember ever seeing a second lane. [00:28:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:55] Speaker B: So just having the second lane. And Denny Hamlin says that what makes next gen cars be awesome at these mile and a half tracks is when you can get. When you have another lane, you can get out of the way, because other car, he's like, you're going to have good racing because when. When both cars can get clean air. [00:29:10] Speaker C: It's awesome. [00:29:11] Speaker B: And when you're behind it, when you're. [00:29:12] Speaker C: Stuck right behind another guy, it's terrible. And, I mean, we see it every single weekend. [00:29:19] Speaker B: It's like, that's exactly what it is. So they had room to race. And I'm all for I said on here last week, talking about blown tires. [00:29:27] Speaker C: There was not many blown tires, but I loved how. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Just how edgy and on edge it looked like the cars were. That's how every race looked. [00:29:37] Speaker C: With a thousand horsepower, the cars looked. [00:29:40] Speaker B: Like they were literally. You did not know what was gonna happen. And I'm just like said, when you don't know what's gonna happen, good things happen. So, yeah, I loved it. I voted yes on the poll, thought it was awesome. For some reason I did. [00:29:55] Speaker A: I was just, like, 50 50. [00:29:56] Speaker C: I was like, this race could suck. [00:29:58] Speaker B: But I was like, I don't know. Once I saw the truck in the. [00:30:01] Speaker C: Xfinity race, I was like, I kind of. [00:30:04] Speaker B: My hope started, like, switching. Like, I was like, I don't know. I see a lot more grooves and racing on here than I've seen in the last eight, nine years. And so I went into Sunday morning. [00:30:13] Speaker C: With, like, this could be. This could be cool. [00:30:17] Speaker B: And I thought it turned out to be awesome. [00:30:18] Speaker C: So good job. [00:30:21] Speaker A: The next gen car reigns supreme at the mile and a halves. It was everything that we always had a problem with them back in the day. [00:30:26] Speaker C: It's just. [00:30:27] Speaker A: It's allowed them to have a little. [00:30:30] Speaker C: Bit of a different feel to him. [00:30:32] Speaker A: Where it does have that unpredictability factor. I mean, even chase gets out of. [00:30:36] Speaker C: The car after getting his first win. [00:30:38] Speaker A: In 42 races, even he said, I just did not expect Texas to be. [00:30:41] Speaker C: Where we break this winless streak, but hell yeah. [00:30:44] Speaker A: Let's go. Take where you get it. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Five and a mile and a half. [00:30:48] Speaker C: On the next gen car. Yep. Wow. [00:30:50] Speaker B: Great. [00:30:51] Speaker D: So that was a really loud cheer, too, when he won favorite, but that. [00:30:56] Speaker B: Was anything on fire. [00:30:57] Speaker C: But nothing on fire. [00:30:59] Speaker D: You know, the only thing, I was a little disappointed he didn't do any burnouts. He drove down this, the front straight. [00:31:05] Speaker B: And that was really cool, though. He did that for Alan Kawiki, who was spot. He started the polish victory lap. Him and his dad had a great battle back in the day. His sponsor was Hooters back in the day. [00:31:17] Speaker C: So everything that he did in that. [00:31:20] Speaker B: Post race thing was, like, for Alan Kawiki as a tribute. That is hooters first win in NASCAR in 32 years. [00:31:26] Speaker C: Wow. Was with Alan Kawicki well, back in 92, yeah, I do love. [00:31:35] Speaker B: But it, doing all that was very cool to see, I thought, yeah, see. [00:31:39] Speaker D: I missed a lot of things because I'm in person, so I can't hear what, like what the announcers are saying and everything, so. [00:31:44] Speaker B: Totally. [00:31:45] Speaker C: That is cool. Yeah. Yeah. [00:31:47] Speaker A: It's, that's the best part about it, too, is NASCAR is such a sport based on the history of it in. [00:31:53] Speaker C: A way that I don't think, I. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Think baseball is about the only one. [00:31:58] Speaker C: That I can think really rivals the. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Historical aspects of at least that I've seen. If somebody has a correction on that that thinks some of the, some other sport I don't pay much attention to does. But I feel like baseball has the. [00:32:10] Speaker C: Similar thing to NASCAR, where it's all about tradition and the history of the sport, where things came from, the reasons. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Why people do things. A lot of times in NASCAR has little to do with ego and so. [00:32:22] Speaker C: Much to do with respect for the history. [00:32:24] Speaker A: And that's something that's really cool to see because even I didn't know that when he was doing that polish victory. [00:32:29] Speaker C: Lap, it was the first hooters win in 30 years. [00:32:32] Speaker A: And all this stuff that you just. [00:32:33] Speaker C: Said, it was things that I didn't even know about. But then once you are, like, learn. [00:32:38] Speaker A: The history of those different things that. [00:32:41] Speaker C: Happen in the sport, it suddenly opens. [00:32:43] Speaker A: Your eyes to so many reasons why. [00:32:45] Speaker C: People do things the way that they do. [00:32:47] Speaker A: And it's really cool to see that play out in front of me. A lot of things that I learned. [00:32:50] Speaker C: From Dawson as I was getting into NASCAR wasn't just how the race itself worked, but the history of the sport and different things. [00:32:59] Speaker A: We'd go back and watch old historical races where I didn't know the winner. [00:33:02] Speaker C: We still do. Yeah. [00:33:04] Speaker A: And still do. And sometimes it's, it's a race that even Dawson doesn't remember who won. And we'll just go back and rewatch it just to get that little glimpse into the past. [00:33:12] Speaker C: And it's, it taught me a shitload about NASCAR. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Just going back and doing all those. [00:33:16] Speaker C: Kind of things, things that you wouldn't even think were important. Yeah. [00:33:20] Speaker D: And speaking of history, I got to take a garage tour with a guy named Rocco. I'm sure y'all probably heard of this guy. He was the first guy on a, first black guy on a championship pit crew. And he is the guy. He's, he just, I don't, I think he does, like, behind the scenes stuff now, but he's the guy that kind of started the trend of going to find athletes to be on pit crews. Like, he was kind of the front runner and that whole thing and how it's changed the game. Like, because he was, you know, I'm sure y'all know more this history than I do, but how, you know, pit stops used to be, what, 20 seconds long or whatever, and now they've got down to 9 seconds. And how he's, he's literally the front, the front guy. That's the ones that goes out responsible for recruiting these big time college athletes and these people who may retire from their sport, but they still have a lot to give athletically. And that's how it's changed the sport. And it's awesome. And, man, he just knew so much about NASCAR, and it was, it was a cool experience to just learn all this extra stuff that I didn't have a clue about, you know. [00:34:18] Speaker A: Man, that is awesome. That would have been so much fun to do that, do that kind of a tour with somebody like that, with so much history in the sport. [00:34:25] Speaker C: That's. That's incredible. [00:34:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:28] Speaker C: Pit stops, just to throw it out there. [00:34:31] Speaker B: Chase Elliot, the nine team broke the record again for fastest pit stop ever. [00:34:35] Speaker D: Did they? [00:34:35] Speaker C: With a eight, four nine, which is. [00:34:39] Speaker B: Just mind blowing, man. Ray Abrahams on the Dell junior download earlier this year, and he was talking. [00:34:48] Speaker C: About how all that kind of started. [00:34:51] Speaker B: Changing, you know, like in the nineties, early two thousands, when, like, exactly what you're talking about. [00:34:56] Speaker C: And they, you know, would bring athletes. [00:34:58] Speaker B: In and stuff like this. And before that, it was literally just the guys that worked on the car in the shop. [00:35:03] Speaker C: They just brought him out to, like. [00:35:05] Speaker B: Change tires and do this. And a lot of the times they would do big adjustments and do a lot of work on the cars. And then when it got to this. [00:35:12] Speaker C: Point, he was like, they were talking about, he was like, I don't, I. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Don'T need these guys doing all. I need these guys in the garage doing all the work before the race and up before. But he's like, once we're racing, he's. [00:35:23] Speaker C: Like, I need to get this done. [00:35:25] Speaker B: As fast as possible. Not, not having just the guys that are mechanics. And it was kind of funny. I never heard anybody talk about this. [00:35:31] Speaker C: Before, but kind of them, like, him. [00:35:35] Speaker B: Specifically was talking to Rick Hendrick, who was the boss man at the time. He had this idea and he had told him this idea, and they were. [00:35:42] Speaker C: Like, they were all under the impression. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Of originally, like, why would we hire more guys when we already have these guys here? Why don't we hire an extra set? Because back in the day, it used to be seven guys that went over. [00:35:52] Speaker C: The wall and he was like, because. [00:35:55] Speaker B: You know, we could be faster and. [00:35:56] Speaker C: This, that and other. [00:35:58] Speaker B: And just to hear him talk about that transition of. Because he used to be Jeff Gordon's crew chief back in the heyday of the, in the nineties and for him to talk about that transition to him when he like went to the mechanics and he's like, some mechanics were like, hell yeah man, I'd rather just work. [00:36:13] Speaker C: On the car and not get, try. [00:36:14] Speaker B: To get run over every weekend. And then some of them were like very prideful in the fact of like. [00:36:19] Speaker C: You know, you know, you're saying I can't change tires. [00:36:22] Speaker B: I mean, you know, I'm a mechanic and what you're saying I can't change tires. It was just funny to hear him talk about all that and that's, you know, it's more behind the scenes stuff. [00:36:30] Speaker C: That even a guy like me I'd. [00:36:32] Speaker B: Never heard, you know, that really talked about how the transition really went down. [00:36:36] Speaker C: You know, so it is, it is crazy. That is incredible. Yeah, it's been. [00:36:41] Speaker A: It definitely is a wild thing to. [00:36:43] Speaker C: See those kind of history things play out. And we're gonna have to come up. [00:36:47] Speaker A: With a new award, the lane frost award for any pit stop, any pick team that can change the entire car, add gas in it in under 8 seconds. We're all aiming for that eight second mark. [00:36:58] Speaker B: They're getting closer by the weekend. Dude, they're four tenths away from a eight second flat. [00:37:03] Speaker A: I mean that's incredible. [00:37:05] Speaker D: I didn't think that was possible, you know. Cause what was the race a few weeks ago where Denny had like a second faster and he was like nine and a half or something and end up winning? I think I forgot what race it was. But yeah, like that was huge, you know. And like another second off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And now you take another second off. [00:37:25] Speaker C: That. [00:37:25] Speaker D: That's crazy. [00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I had the conversation, I was with my dad earlier today and we were literally talking about this and about kind of like loose lugs and just kind of the whole thing. And I was like, this is going to make me sound like an old man. [00:37:37] Speaker C: But I remember and it wasn't that long ago. [00:37:40] Speaker B: I'm talking about within ten years ago. [00:37:43] Speaker C: Like when you could get a 14 2nd pit stop. Like 14 seconds was the goal and. [00:37:49] Speaker B: Now they're blowing the doors off 14 seconds by 6 seconds. [00:37:52] Speaker C: Like I cannot wrap my mind around. [00:37:56] Speaker B: Still to this day that they can change four tires and put 18 gallons. [00:38:00] Speaker C: Of gas in a race car in 8 seconds. I just. [00:38:03] Speaker B: It doesn't make sense. I don't understand it. And I know they, they don't fill it all the way up with gas because they literally don't have time. But still, it just. The whole aspect of doing all that in 8 seconds is like. [00:38:15] Speaker C: It's like, boom, four new tires. [00:38:18] Speaker B: I just don't. It's just crazy. [00:38:19] Speaker C: I don't understand. Yeah. And races are one and lost by the difference of eight to 10 seconds. Any of those stops, even the worst ones, would still manage to get you. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Four to five positions on pit road. [00:38:34] Speaker B: Eight years ago, wasn't it you last week said in 2024, pit crews are more important than they have ever been. [00:38:42] Speaker C: Ever. Yeah. [00:38:43] Speaker A: And I stand behind that in the. [00:38:47] Speaker B: Way passing isn't all this stuff that in yesterday passing, you could pass, but like, say, you know, at a Richmond or Martinsville or where we've had these, you know, races. When I texted you, Stephen, and you. [00:38:57] Speaker C: Were talking about when I said Reddick. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Was screwed, you know, and he got beat so bad because he was like, 5 seconds, I think, different. Five or six. He had a five. He had a five or six second lead. And then Denny passed him on the. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Pit on that green green flag. [00:39:12] Speaker B: And that's when I was like, oh, my God, he is screwed. And then his car was so fast, he drove him back down. Fox missed it on the broadcast, by the way. [00:39:19] Speaker C: So surprising. [00:39:21] Speaker B: You could see that Fox missed the pass for the lead on the broadcast, which is just on this super on that stretch. Exactly. So we didn't get to even see the past until a replay at home. [00:39:35] Speaker C: They realized they had missed it. [00:39:37] Speaker B: And I wouldn't mind if we talk later on a good digging session on Fox. Cuz I. I also thought I was like, these replays are. They're kind of driving me insane, because every time something happens, it would be so. You couldn't even. It was so bad, you couldn't even tell who the two cars were, other than, like, the car that hit the wall and they zoom in on it, but the two cars that were having. [00:40:01] Speaker C: Contact, you could not see it. [00:40:03] Speaker B: And I was thinking all of this. [00:40:05] Speaker C: And then I get on Twitter and. [00:40:06] Speaker B: Everyone is flipping out about the broadcast. [00:40:09] Speaker A: Oh, without a doubt. I didn't even know who to be mad at as a Blaney fan. When he got wrecked out of the race, I was like, I have no idea who I'm. [00:40:16] Speaker B: Blaney got flat dumped. I mean, flat ass ran over in the corner. And Fox couldn't have showed you that. No one knew about it till NASCAR posted it on Twitter. And someone made the greatest of great tweets and said, could you imagine if you had to follow the NFL on Twitter to find out what happened during a football game because the broadcast couldn't show it to you? That is so fucked up. [00:40:38] Speaker C: They didn't have. [00:40:38] Speaker B: You couldn't. The view they had with Blaney and Ryan Priest. One, you couldn't even tell it was Ryan Priest. And two, you couldn't even tell if they made contact. The video they show Ryan Priest ran. [00:40:49] Speaker C: Through Ryan Blaney and they, get out of my way. Have a view of that. [00:40:55] Speaker A: Like, what the fuck is tender spot for Dawson Edwards on Fox broadcast? [00:41:00] Speaker B: It happened multiple times yesterday. Every single time there was a wreck or because there were obviously a bunch of wrecks, every single replay looked the same. I was like, they don't even have a camera within 2 miles of Texas to get a fucking view of this. [00:41:13] Speaker D: It was there at the dirt track. [00:41:18] Speaker B: Race. [00:41:19] Speaker C: Oh, my. [00:41:20] Speaker B: I was just like, and then once. It happens once and twice. And then for every caution, I was. [00:41:24] Speaker C: Like, this is so frustrating because I. [00:41:27] Speaker B: Don'T even know who's who. [00:41:29] Speaker C: That's how far away the views were. [00:41:31] Speaker D: Especially, you know, when. When he got wrecked, they were still grouped up. They weren't spread out yet, you know? [00:41:35] Speaker B: So, yeah, I just don't understand. And then the final restart, they don't even. So it's either they're so zoomed in that you could see the hairs on the driver's ass, or they're so zoomed out that you can't even tell what the paint job is of the car. [00:41:51] Speaker C: That'S in the wreck. It's just like. [00:41:53] Speaker B: I just don't understand. I just can't even. I'm just. I don't know how these people get paid. [00:41:57] Speaker C: I mean, they get paid really, really well. And I don't know how that all this happens, but it does. [00:42:04] Speaker B: I don't even know what I was talking about before. [00:42:05] Speaker C: But anyways, yeah, but we got a. [00:42:07] Speaker A: Phenomenal rant out of you on that, so I'll take that all day long. One thing I will give them credit for, and I don't know how much you got to see this, Stephen, but. [00:42:15] Speaker C: Ross Chastain in the booth was a hit for me. [00:42:19] Speaker A: Ross Chastain in the booth was one of the best additions to a booth I've seen in modern memory. [00:42:24] Speaker C: He did the xfinity race and that dude had stats. He knew. He knew names of the main contact for a specific sponsor on a car. [00:42:37] Speaker A: He could tell you exactly who it was that he had to work with. [00:42:40] Speaker C: To get that sponsorship. Just a random one out of nowhere. [00:42:44] Speaker A: And just different little things like that. He just knew everything that he needed to know. He was extremely prepared, and he was. [00:42:51] Speaker C: Talking some mad in the booth at Ryan Blaney at one point, and it's somebody else at another, and he was. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Just up there just gigging at people. [00:43:01] Speaker C: And not giving a damn. [00:43:02] Speaker A: It was awesome. I want to see more Ross Chastain in the booth. [00:43:06] Speaker C: Watermelon man. Put him back in there. [00:43:08] Speaker B: I did not see any part of. [00:43:09] Speaker A: The bush race, so you missed out. [00:43:12] Speaker C: It was, it was a treat. [00:43:13] Speaker B: I listened to the bush race and kept up with it, but I did. [00:43:16] Speaker C: Not hear the booth of the bush race. [00:43:19] Speaker A: I think Jeff Gluck put up a poll with Ross Chastain was a good addition to the booth, and it was at like 89%. [00:43:25] Speaker C: Yes. [00:43:25] Speaker A: So Ross Chastain is outperforming short tracks. [00:43:29] Speaker C: On the Jeff Gluck pole. [00:43:30] Speaker B: I personally have always liked when they. [00:43:32] Speaker C: Have the drivers in there, they bring. [00:43:35] Speaker B: A lot to the table, and you got. You have two drivers up there that have never done it in their life. And they out do Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip and Jamie Little, who's been doing it since I was fucking born. [00:43:45] Speaker C: Yeah, they do. It's another whole issue. [00:43:48] Speaker A: And the digs that they can take. [00:43:50] Speaker C: At each other, like, oh, yeah, you. [00:43:52] Speaker D: Get guys in there that. That just love the sport and are just nerds about the sport, and they love everything they do, and they just, they're just, it's like they're talking with their buddies, you know, it's. And they just have so much knowledge. This was cool. You know, when you get, like, even NFL, you get these ex quarterbacks and stuff like this who just, they spent so much time learning everything about the sport, it's. It's fun to listen to talk about. [00:44:12] Speaker C: Other people playing it because you get a different, you know, angle of what it's all about. Cool. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, it was. [00:44:20] Speaker A: It was really cool to see. So I wanted to give a big. [00:44:23] Speaker C: Old ross chastain shout out, and I want to give a shout out to Ron seek. [00:44:29] Speaker A: Yeah, that too. [00:44:31] Speaker C: I mean, that heartbreaking. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Heartbreaking loss. [00:44:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:35] Speaker B: I mean, he is. He has been. He is your middle tier, working class scrounge for everything. They got xfinity team, you know, and to go up there and run with the big dogs at a mile and a half. [00:44:49] Speaker C: I mean, this close. [00:44:51] Speaker B: That's about it. [00:44:52] Speaker D: He's the guy that got second, right? [00:44:53] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. [00:44:55] Speaker B: And I mean, to do that is. [00:44:59] Speaker C: I'll never forget Caleb. [00:45:01] Speaker B: We were Caleb. Caleb is. I don't know if you are as much now, but used to be a big Jeremy Clements fan. [00:45:08] Speaker A: I still pay attention. He hasn't done anything a note lately, but I still pay attention back. [00:45:13] Speaker B: This was when Caleb first started. First started watching racing. He won a. [00:45:20] Speaker C: Road course race and he is all. [00:45:22] Speaker B: He's in that same group like that, underfunded, just, you know, drive for yourself, family team. Just, you know, that blue collar kind. [00:45:29] Speaker C: Of working man's team. [00:45:32] Speaker B: And I'll never forget, and at the time, I didn't really. Jeremy Clements has apparently been racing for a long time. Apparently, as of last week, has a second most Xfinity series starts in history, outside of Kenny Wallace, which. Wow. I just didn't know that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't really remember even hearing about. [00:45:49] Speaker C: Jimmy, Jeremy Clements until what. The story that I'm about to tell you. [00:45:54] Speaker B: And anyway, so I didn't know, like I said, I didn't know a whole bunch about it. Well, his crew chief gets off the box and he's wearing a t shirt and blue jeans. [00:46:02] Speaker C: And I was like, if your tea. [00:46:04] Speaker B: If your crew chief is wearing blue. [00:46:06] Speaker C: Jeans, I fuck with you. [00:46:08] Speaker B: Like, I'm in. I was like, you are for some backwoods. Like, he. He can get up underneath that car and do some work on it. And, uh, I remember saying that to Caleb or somebody because they're just, like, all cheering. I was like, they're wearing, like, blue jeans. Like, they got, like, wranglers and Levi's on in the pit box. I was, like, having a good time. Like, these are our kind of guys. So, like, Ryan, see, falls into that and run that well at a place that's not like Talladega or Daytona or now Atlanta. [00:46:38] Speaker C: It's. That's a huge deal. I mean, yeah. Even Dell Junior said he was cheering for Ryan Seek. And he said that his sister was. [00:46:45] Speaker B: Going to hate him for saying that, but he said he loves a good underdog story. So I was. I was like, damn, he was so close. [00:46:51] Speaker C: How can you not? [00:46:52] Speaker A: And when you own the team, you. [00:46:53] Speaker C: Could say what you want. [00:46:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:55] Speaker D: He was going to show up in victory Lane to junior. Yeah, we got victory Lane with Andy's. And I was like, man, because I didn't. I mean, I don't know enough about that series to know all the racers and the teams and all that. But then obviously when their whole crew got them. Oh, this is juniors, you know, team or whatever. [00:47:10] Speaker B: So I was hoping he was even there. I don't think he. [00:47:14] Speaker D: Probably not, but I was. I, you know, it's just wishful thinking, like, oh, man, see this guy? [00:47:19] Speaker B: No, no, I would have been. I would have been the same way. [00:47:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I would have thought the same thing. [00:47:22] Speaker B: I've been trying to. [00:47:24] Speaker C: So I'll run into him one of these days somewhere. Hell yeah. [00:47:28] Speaker A: Let's go down to Whiskey river over there in Charlotte, see if you can run into him somewhere. [00:47:32] Speaker C: Yeah, love it. [00:47:34] Speaker B: Key west used to be the place. [00:47:35] Speaker C: Run into him? Yeah, I'll never. [00:47:37] Speaker A: It might be even too expensive to go to Key west for Dale junior at this point. [00:47:41] Speaker C: He sold his house. Yeah. [00:47:42] Speaker B: Go down there as much as he used to. [00:47:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't afford it. [00:47:46] Speaker D: I was there the year that, uh. [00:47:48] Speaker C: That he was there. [00:47:48] Speaker D: I was, I was at that bar. [00:47:50] Speaker C: So I didn't like, I like, said. [00:47:51] Speaker D: Hey to him, but I didn't like. [00:47:52] Speaker C: You know, whatever, but yeah. [00:47:54] Speaker A: Dang, Holly, six months of NASCAR fandom, you have already managed to do more things than most people get to do in a lifetime of eleven. The sport. [00:48:04] Speaker C: The only thing you're missing now is. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Watching your own driver, your favorite driver. [00:48:07] Speaker C: Win at a track while you're there. Yeah. [00:48:10] Speaker D: You know, I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but, you know, y'all forced me to pick a driver and, you know, I picked, I picked Denny, you know, because I watched the series, I was like, I know everybody hates this guy, but, you know, he seems like he just kind of likes to win. Don't really care what, who he offends in the process. And I kind of like that mentality a little bit, you know, which, I don't know the history of him and, you know, I know a lot of people don't like him, but I think. [00:48:31] Speaker C: I told you this, too. [00:48:32] Speaker D: I think it's awesome for the sport. You got to have polarizing figures, you know, you love them or you hate them kind of thing. And it was even like this race. [00:48:39] Speaker C: This weekend, like, I thought he was. [00:48:41] Speaker D: Going to win it and then he wrecked. And the whole crowd cheers, which, you know, it's like, it's cool. It's like, dang, I kind of wish he was going to be there at the end, but the fact that he got that reaction, you know, for wrecking, which is cool to me, it's like. [00:48:53] Speaker C: All right, we got some. Got some blood in here. [00:48:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:57] Speaker A: He's definitely Kyle Busch's spot. [00:48:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:01] Speaker A: As the most hated driver. [00:49:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:03] Speaker A: The entire sport, which is hilarious to. [00:49:05] Speaker C: Me because, to be honest, I could see why someone wouldn't like Kyle Busch. [00:49:11] Speaker A: And just anybody wouldn't like him just because of the. Some of the things he said and that. The ways he carries himself after he. [00:49:17] Speaker C: Lost back in the day at Joe Gibbs. But nowadays with Denny, it's like. [00:49:22] Speaker A: It's almost like if you hate Denny, it's because you hate seeing somebody so cocky do well. [00:49:27] Speaker C: Nobody likes watching a cocky hockey winner. [00:49:29] Speaker A: And I think that's 90% of why he does so well. [00:49:32] Speaker C: He accepts it when he loses, but. [00:49:35] Speaker A: He will rub it in your face. [00:49:36] Speaker C: When he wins, which is hilarious to. [00:49:38] Speaker A: Me because nobody wants to see it. But I'm loving everything I've been seeing. [00:49:42] Speaker C: Out of Denny, especially with the podcast going on now. I mean, it's. [00:49:46] Speaker A: It's so much fun to just watch the interactions that people have with Denny. [00:49:50] Speaker C: On Twitter, with him in the podcast. [00:49:53] Speaker A: With NaSCar and him in the podcast. [00:49:55] Speaker C: It's a lot of smoke. Yeah. [00:49:57] Speaker A: Him and Marcus Smith getting that up, too. [00:49:59] Speaker B: Whenever we get a chance, I want. [00:50:01] Speaker C: To bring that up. Shoot. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Go for it. [00:50:03] Speaker C: So. [00:50:03] Speaker B: So this weekend, you have a. [00:50:06] Speaker C: You have the feud on Twitter, you know, last week, and then we come to a speedway motorsports track, which is. [00:50:15] Speaker B: The Smiths on racetrack this weekend. [00:50:17] Speaker C: And you get to Texas, and what's. [00:50:20] Speaker B: The first thing everybody notices? The big ass scoring pylons just been. [00:50:25] Speaker C: Taken down, just not there anymore. And in the truck race, the lights on the inside of turn three just ain't working. And Denny Hamlin just goes on there and says, lol. [00:50:40] Speaker B: Every single thing about it. I started watching the truck race came from where we were at, but it was before, like, the race started before. [00:50:50] Speaker C: We, like, we got home or whatever. [00:50:53] Speaker B: And we were out eating. [00:50:54] Speaker C: The head mouth had my phone up. [00:50:57] Speaker B: And, like, we're eating and hanging out, and I'm watching the race, you know, whatever, and I see the spot they're going by on the track, and I'm like, it looks super dark wherever they're. I like it. I was, like, paying so least less of attention. I didn't even know what part of the track they were at, but I was like, every time they go by here, I was like, it's just black. [00:51:11] Speaker C: For, like, 200 yards. I was like, what's going on? [00:51:15] Speaker B: Get home. Get on twitter. People are taking pictures. Just the middle of turn three is just black lights are just not working. And I was just like, golly, they. [00:51:25] Speaker C: Picked a bad week to mess some. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Of this stuff up. After the feud with, with Denny and. [00:51:31] Speaker C: Marcus, I was like, if I was. [00:51:33] Speaker B: Marcus, I might have went down there and made sure some of that stuff worked and was there and, you know, all the things, but, oh, yeah, it just didn't, didn't pan out in their favor. [00:51:41] Speaker D: It did not. Well, speaking of Denny, I got a couple questions for you. So, one, because I haven't seen anything like, from the race ever. I mean, obviously I was there, so I didn't get to watch broadcasts. Were there any feuds or like the people say anything to each other after the race because there were a lot of wrecks. So I didn't know if it was one of those things that maybe someone wrecked somebody else. And then also I had a view. [00:52:05] Speaker C: So where I was sitting, I was. [00:52:06] Speaker D: Sitting, you know, a little bit to the right of start finish line so I could see when Chase and, or when Denny wrecked, when him and Chase were going for, was that just a. Denny just kind of lost. It was going too hard. And just because even during Chase's speech, he said, I haven't seen the replay. I don't think I caused Denny to wreck, you know, but if I did, I'm sorry, but we were just driving hard or whatever, you know, he did. [00:52:29] Speaker C: Something to that extent. [00:52:30] Speaker B: Denny's exact words were post race that that was the hardest. He had raced in fast as he was going in that part of the corner the whole weekend, and he knew it was already on edge before even getting in there. And he was like, but it's coming to the white flag, like, you're not going to lift. [00:52:47] Speaker C: So that was just one of those. [00:52:50] Speaker B: Good old racing deals, getting loose, taking. [00:52:52] Speaker C: Some air off the nose kind of situation. [00:52:55] Speaker D: That's exciting, that's racing. That's what you want in that. [00:52:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:58] Speaker B: Cars to be on the edge, and they were this weekend, like, that's that uncertainty. [00:53:04] Speaker C: Like everything about that man. Like back in the day, even when. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Caleb first started watching, there's example of this when Jimmy Johnson got loose on the inside of a car and wrecked at the brickyard. [00:53:16] Speaker C: But like back a long time ago. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Cars would race down side by side and they would pin the inside car down and the way the air would go, it would make the guy on the inside get loose and they would wreck all the time by manipulating the air before this whole low horsepower and such and all the things that have happened now, which we are semi working. [00:53:36] Speaker C: On getting our way out of. [00:53:38] Speaker B: But like, that exact wreck that you. [00:53:39] Speaker C: Just saw with Denny and some of. [00:53:41] Speaker B: These guys this weekend of just, like, the car busting out from under them. [00:53:44] Speaker C: That used to happen every weekend all. [00:53:48] Speaker B: The time happened two times in practice, two times in qualifying, and then in. [00:53:53] Speaker C: The race, because the car the drivers. [00:53:55] Speaker B: Were going to so hard, they had so much horsepower, they had no downforce. [00:54:01] Speaker C: And no grip and just going balls to the walls. Yeah. [00:54:05] Speaker A: And I definitely don't think anything, anybody had any fault there. And I think the only. [00:54:12] Speaker C: The only situation where I think anybody. [00:54:15] Speaker A: Really got pissed off, I think it was chastain. After the. [00:54:19] Speaker C: After him and Byron got together, uh. [00:54:22] Speaker A: Chastain definitely got all sorts of hacked off about it. But you watched back at the replays, and William Byron's coming up out of turn two. Chastain's coming down out of turn two. And it's just a racing deal where. [00:54:35] Speaker C: Chastain kind of, kind of went down. [00:54:38] Speaker A: On to William Byron's nose and ended up spinning himself out. So Chastain was pretty pissed off about that. So maybe watch out next week for a chastain to just find out what the backside of William Byron's engine looks. [00:54:50] Speaker C: Like, because he's definitely going to punt him out of the way at some point. [00:54:54] Speaker A: Yeah, but I can't say that anybody else was really overly pissed off at anybody else. I know Ryan's probably Blaine, he's probably pissed off at priest, but I haven't. [00:55:02] Speaker C: Seen anything specific about it. [00:55:05] Speaker B: Yeah, me neither. [00:55:05] Speaker C: Bells. [00:55:06] Speaker B: I was going to say that I feel like Ryan Blaney is probably highly pissed off with Ryan Priest, because if you haven't seen it, just go to NASCAR. Their twitter, and they posted a video. Ryan Priest doesn't let off the gas and literally runs through Ryan Blaney. I mean, just plows through him, like, knocks the calf laps up and everything. So that one was very. [00:55:28] Speaker C: Just a greed. [00:55:30] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot of wrecks that happened. Like I said, just cars being on edge or hard racing. And I even considered the. I don't really know who to put faults on or what with the one in 24. To me, it's kind of like Caleb said, it looked like two cars that were just going to crisscross, and where. [00:55:45] Speaker C: They crisscrossed, their bumpers touched, and that. [00:55:48] Speaker B: Was just what it was. But the most, by far the most egregious, just, boom, out of the way. [00:55:55] Speaker C: Was the. [00:55:56] Speaker B: Was the. Was the 41 hitting the twelve. I also thought the first Josh Barry wreck, it looked like he was trying to wreck somebody. I think it was. The 47 car was in front of him. It looked like he was trying to just punt him out of the way and miss and wrecked himself. [00:56:12] Speaker A: But obviously wasn't much contact there. It was. [00:56:16] Speaker B: There's no proof to that, but just the way the cars looked on the track, he was just trying to get in there and do it and then miss. [00:56:24] Speaker C: So I don't know. Yeah. [00:56:25] Speaker B: Josh Barry had a rough, rough go at it yesterday. [00:56:28] Speaker C: He really did. Yeah. [00:56:31] Speaker A: I mean, that's shr in a nutshell right there. They'll have a good week one week, and they'll have a terrible week the next week. You just never know what to expect from them or which team is going to be performing. [00:56:39] Speaker B: Something that blew me away, though. Something. The stat here that blew me away. Chase Briscoe has the most top five starts of anyone this season, and he has the 10th best average running order. [00:56:53] Speaker C: Of anybody this season, which is mind blowing. [00:56:57] Speaker B: I saw. I saw the numbers yesterday, and they. [00:56:59] Speaker C: Were from credible people, and I was like, interesting. [00:57:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have guessed that. [00:57:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:06] Speaker B: And you think back at it like, he does. He qual. He makes the top ten, like, every. [00:57:09] Speaker C: Week qualifying, and then apparently six. Yeah. [00:57:13] Speaker B: And he had a good run yesterday. [00:57:14] Speaker C: And so I don't know, I just. [00:57:17] Speaker B: Was, like, kind of mind blown about that. [00:57:19] Speaker C: But while we're on the topic, I. [00:57:22] Speaker B: Post this on Twitter and didn't get any zero interaction, which is. Which is common, but it's from zero interaction on this. [00:57:29] Speaker C: If Shr. [00:57:32] Speaker B: If Shr sells two charters, what two do y'all think they get rid of? Like, what two drivers keep their jobs? What two drivers go different places or lose their job or whatever. [00:57:44] Speaker C: Who. [00:57:44] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know. I don't know who brings the most money. I don't know who's the most talented. So I really. [00:57:51] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:57:51] Speaker B: They got two brand new guys in there this year with Barry and Gregson, and you got. The other two guys haven't done a whole lot. [00:57:59] Speaker C: So it's like, who goes? [00:58:01] Speaker B: Who stays? I just want to hear y'all's opinion. [00:58:03] Speaker C: Because I tried to get some. Something going on Twitter, but literally nothing. So I'll bring it up here. [00:58:08] Speaker D: Well, I'll start off, but I don't. You know, I'm new to this, so I don't know. On everybody's team that sort of. [00:58:14] Speaker B: I enjoy. I enjoy hearing a new perspective, though. Wasn't a. [00:58:18] Speaker D: Wasn't Gregson one of the guys that we were talking about earlier in the season that was doing kind of well or. [00:58:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:24] Speaker D: Okay. [00:58:24] Speaker B: So even ran good yesterday. They posted online about. They had. He had on the median lap average stuff. He had top ten speed yesterday, but he got caught by one of those cautions and he got a lap down, had to get his lap back. Ended up finishing in the. Yeah, in the teens. So I think without that caution though. [00:58:43] Speaker C: He runs closer to ten. Just throwing that out there. Yeah. [00:58:48] Speaker D: I'm just going to pass it to you, Caleb, because you have way more knowledge on. [00:58:53] Speaker B: Caleb loves Ryan. Well, Caleb used to love any more after he killed, tried to kill Blainey yesterday. [00:59:00] Speaker A: I'm not a fan of his most recent performance for sure, but I do like Ryan Priest. I am a Ryan Priest fan. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Yes. [00:59:07] Speaker A: He's a blue collar guy, works on his own cars. [00:59:10] Speaker C: He definitely knows his shit and he can drive. I think he's in a bad position. [00:59:14] Speaker A: Right now with a team that's not really put together well. [00:59:17] Speaker C: Where I just don't think he's actually. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Had his opportunity to shine just yet. And I feel like every week it just digs his grave a little bit further. I'm not sure how long we'll see. [00:59:26] Speaker C: Him in the series. [00:59:28] Speaker A: I hope it's a long extended stay and he doesn't go back to modified racing. [00:59:32] Speaker C: But to answer your actual question, if. [00:59:35] Speaker A: You had to ask me right now, at this point in the season, if they were going to drop two drivers. [00:59:40] Speaker C: Which would they keep? [00:59:41] Speaker A: My guess is that they would keep. [00:59:42] Speaker C: Briscoe and they would keep Noah Gregson. [00:59:45] Speaker A: Briscoe is the only one on that team so far that has won for them. Everybody else is all new guys or guys that are like priests and you've just ran kind of mid ever since you got there. He's the only one that has trophies. [00:59:59] Speaker C: To support his ride and he's got a lot of sponsorships that just seem. [01:00:04] Speaker A: To be working out well. The Mahindra tractor sponsorship between him and. [01:00:07] Speaker C: Tony Stewart, they just. [01:00:09] Speaker A: It seems like they're a huge supporter. [01:00:10] Speaker C: Of what they've got going on over there. [01:00:13] Speaker A: So I think not in just results. [01:00:15] Speaker C: But in money he brings in. I think he keeps his ride and then Gregson. [01:00:21] Speaker A: I feel like everybody's kind of seen it. He hasn't had a minute, really, to. [01:00:25] Speaker C: Get jelled into the team quite as well. [01:00:28] Speaker A: He needs a little bit more time with that team to really settle in. But he's already been putting up good numbers. He's already been putting up good finishes. [01:00:34] Speaker C: When no one else was at that team. [01:00:37] Speaker A: He's up there competing with Briscoe as their top driver right now, and he's. [01:00:41] Speaker C: Also an extremely entertaining character who has. [01:00:45] Speaker A: A lot of love from the people that support him. Bass pro shops is 100% in on that guy. [01:00:50] Speaker B: I was just about to say one of the men that support him is worth over $15 billion, so always keep that in the back of your mind when you think about Noah Gregson. Without a doubt, Johnny Morris is who I'm talking. [01:01:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:00] Speaker B: With Bass robe. [01:01:01] Speaker C: So that's. [01:01:02] Speaker B: That's always in the back of my mind with. [01:01:04] Speaker C: With the Gregson situation. No doubt. [01:01:07] Speaker A: And I think Josh Berry has a lot of grassroots support, but I don't know how well that's transferring into sponsorship dollars. He still has good sponsors coming in. [01:01:16] Speaker C: He's got sunny D, he's got a couple of those other big guys that do support him per race, but I. [01:01:23] Speaker A: Just haven't seen the production out of Berry that I think people really expected. And I'm not just talking about this year. I'm talking about Xfinity Series last year. [01:01:32] Speaker C: It just seemed like I'm always expecting. [01:01:35] Speaker A: Him to do more than he does. It seemed like he came out. Whenever he first entered the Xfinity series. [01:01:40] Speaker C: He came out guns ablazing. [01:01:42] Speaker A: He popped off a couple wins there early and was running extreme well at. [01:01:46] Speaker C: Some races where he got taken out. [01:01:48] Speaker A: And he was fun to watch. And I just felt like after the first season in Xfinity, that just kind. [01:01:53] Speaker C: Of fell off for me, and I. [01:01:55] Speaker A: Could see him being the one. [01:01:56] Speaker C: They say, you know what? We're getting a lot of good money. [01:01:59] Speaker A: From this Gregson kid, and he's actually performing. So I think those two would be the ones that keep their job, and. [01:02:04] Speaker C: That'S the reason why. [01:02:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I think Gregson's, like, running, even though I just said that stuff about Briscoe, Gregson's running great. So. And I think Gregson is a great race car driver. It's just like, getting all this kind of figured out. But I think as soon as. And when he gets confident in the. This car or is with it, maybe a better. Whoever. [01:02:28] Speaker C: Whatever situation is, I think he could be all right. Um, I also agree with you. [01:02:36] Speaker B: Briscoe, obviously, is running great. I mean, he's running, like I said, top ten, average pace for every race this year. [01:02:44] Speaker C: And Mahindra is a huge sponsorship. So, you know, like you said, why. [01:02:51] Speaker B: Would they get rid of. Why would they get rid of that? Also, though, about priests. [01:03:00] Speaker C: Like I said. [01:03:00] Speaker B: I like, he brings all. [01:03:02] Speaker C: He is fully funded as well with all of his stuff. [01:03:07] Speaker B: So it's a. To me, it's like a really hard decision. It's not just, like, cut and dry. Like, all right, these two guys are running like shit. These two guys are kicking ass. So here's two. [01:03:16] Speaker C: And, you know, go and leave. [01:03:17] Speaker B: I don't know. I feel like I. I feel like Ford or someone may get involved, because me, personally, I do not see this is going to. This is my bold take of the season. I don't know if I see Harrison Burton or Austin Cendrick coming back in. [01:03:36] Speaker C: Their respective cars next year. God. [01:03:39] Speaker A: Harrison Burton comes back in that 21 car. They just don't care anymore. [01:03:43] Speaker B: I just don't. [01:03:44] Speaker C: I don't know if I see that. [01:03:47] Speaker B: Either one of those guys. And, Stephen, if you don't know this, Austin Cendrick's dad is the team president. [01:03:55] Speaker C: For Penske's IndyCar team. Tim. Cedric. So his dad works there. [01:04:01] Speaker B: His dad is a very, well, high respected guy. [01:04:05] Speaker C: But I just don't know. I don't know. [01:04:08] Speaker B: They're running so bad. I don't. I don't know. [01:04:10] Speaker C: So I don't. [01:04:11] Speaker B: I could see for getting involved, and this driver may be getting in the 21 car, this guy being in the two car, and I could see Dale junior getting involved in this, and Josh Barry driving for Dale Junior. [01:04:23] Speaker C: So I kind of have a. I. [01:04:26] Speaker B: Don'T know what I think is going to happen, but I just. I think Gregson. I'm kind of with you. I think Gregson and Briscoe stay with. [01:04:33] Speaker C: SHR, and then the other two get. [01:04:38] Speaker B: Meshed in somewhere else. [01:04:39] Speaker C: Maybe I could see it. I could definitely see it. Well, seeing as we're getting to the. [01:04:48] Speaker A: Hour mark of this podcast, we have a very important topic we haven't covered yet, and I'm excited to get to mine. [01:04:54] Speaker C: So I think we need to have. [01:04:56] Speaker A: Stephen start us out with his pick. [01:04:59] Speaker C: For hack of the week. [01:05:01] Speaker A: This week. Oh, I'd have a feeling, you know, one. [01:05:04] Speaker B: I have a feeling you've been waiting. [01:05:06] Speaker A: What do we have waiting? [01:05:09] Speaker D: I'm gonna get Dawson fired up for this one. [01:05:12] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [01:05:13] Speaker D: Whoever was responsible for putting on Kyle Larson's tire, I don't know. I don't know who's at fault for that. But his tire, it was during a caution, right? Just takes off and just goes and. [01:05:28] Speaker B: Made it through the whole green flag run and get caution and falls off. I was like, how in the world is that? I am so thankful that it didn't come off going 193 miles an hour in the corner. [01:05:39] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. [01:05:40] Speaker B: How did it stay for the green. [01:05:43] Speaker C: Flag racing right fall off with the caution. That blows my mind. [01:05:47] Speaker B: No one has an answer, even Cliff Daniels. And Cliff Daniels might be the smartest. Some bitch on pit road. He was like, I have no idea. [01:05:53] Speaker C: If the tire was loose, which it. [01:05:56] Speaker B: Was like, how did it stay on? [01:05:58] Speaker D: Like, it felt like a mean. He was driving this tires just going around the track by itself, you know? Yeah, I don't know. I was like. And that was so sad because, man, like, obviously, you're a huge Kyle Austin fan, but he was running so good. I mean, he was like, watch it. Just watching him race, it was like. [01:06:13] Speaker C: It felt special. [01:06:14] Speaker D: Was like, man, this. That's a race car driver right there. Like, that dude is so good at what he does. And then to have it kind of, like, just taken right away from him over something silly like that, you know, it's. [01:06:26] Speaker C: But, yeah, that's. That's my hack of the week. The. [01:06:29] Speaker B: The funniest thing was Larson on the radio. He goes, he's like, I got the. The right rear. It's, like, going flat. I got a flat tire. And someone, I assume the spotter comes off, and he says, no, you have. You have no right rear tire. And Larson just doesn't have a response. Like, he's like. He's just like, okay. [01:06:46] Speaker A: Well, it's good knowing you, Cliff, for the next two weeks. [01:06:50] Speaker C: Hey, hey, hey. [01:06:50] Speaker B: I saw. I just Bob packers posted. The crew chief doesn't get suspended anymore. The crew chief stays. The jackman and the tire changer get suspended. [01:07:00] Speaker C: The crew. [01:07:00] Speaker A: That's lame. [01:07:03] Speaker D: So, is that when something like that happens, is that, like, one of the most egregious things that can't happen? Is that why they penalize it so heavily? [01:07:10] Speaker A: Like, it's not cause a lot of problems. It's a major safety concern for the driver. So they want to make sure that the teams have sufficient penalty in place to avoid them having this problem. But on top of just a major safety concern for the driver of the car that loses a tire, you also have a errant tire that's now bouncing around the track. Anybody can hit that hits a windshield, that could cause a lot of major damage. [01:07:33] Speaker B: Punted and stands, it can go on the infield, which has happened. [01:07:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:36] Speaker D: I mean, it's going 200 miles an hour, and tell them, okay, exactly. [01:07:41] Speaker C: So, big boat is they. [01:07:44] Speaker A: Whenever the. The next gen car came in and they went to the single lug nut pattern. Pattern doesn't exist anymore compared to the old five lug. [01:07:53] Speaker C: Yeah, the five lug. [01:07:54] Speaker A: If you had loose lug nuts, it was a big deal. At the end of the race, they would go by and check everybody's tires. [01:07:59] Speaker B: And make sure for each lug missing. [01:08:02] Speaker C: That you had on your car. Yeah. [01:08:04] Speaker A: So a lot of times in the race, yeah, they'd miss a lug or two, and it would come off. But because you had five of them, wasn't too big of a deal. They'd have loose wheels, but it was more just a problem of, you don't. [01:08:14] Speaker C: Want the studs to get bored up, bored out. So it wasn't as big of a. [01:08:19] Speaker A: Safety concern back then. It was just a race concern. You don't want too many loose lugs or your tires not attached properly. [01:08:27] Speaker C: But nowadays, it's a huge deal. And so this new rule of crew. [01:08:32] Speaker A: Crew member ejections and safety concerns and. [01:08:35] Speaker C: The high dollar amount of every fine. [01:08:38] Speaker A: For loose tires has become such a big deal nowadays. [01:08:41] Speaker C: So that way, you're just not tempted. [01:08:43] Speaker A: At all to cut any corners. You will reverse the car. If you feel like it has a loose, loose lug on it, you'll tell. [01:08:49] Speaker C: Him to come back in. It's just not worth it to. To risk it anymore, but all the. [01:08:55] Speaker B: Time, because there's only one luck, and. [01:08:58] Speaker C: If you don't hit it, there's nothing. [01:08:59] Speaker B: Else to hold it on, so it's gonna come off. That's why you saw loose wheels with the 19 yesterday, two loose wheels with the 54 yesterday. The 20 car had a loose wheel last week, but it got wedged up into the car, like in the wheel well. You only get penalized if the wheel detaches from the car and the wheel is loose running around in the air, you know, in the racetrack, whatever. So, like last week, the reason there was no fines or penalties for Christopher Bell, the wheel comes off. [01:09:27] Speaker C: Boom. [01:09:27] Speaker B: Straight locked into the wheel well. It can't go anywhere. So it happens. I mean, shoot, I'd say at least once or twice a race now, and it's because there's only one lug nut, and they show that damn thing with that little pop up thing on the hub every single fucking week, and it's like, I fucking understand. [01:09:49] Speaker C: I understand. [01:09:50] Speaker B: That's why that doesn't stop them from it accidentally happening sometimes. [01:09:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:09:54] Speaker B: And I'm just showing it to whoever and new people and all that. But it's like they show the same. [01:10:00] Speaker C: Diagram the same way every week. [01:10:04] Speaker A: I think they honestly paid probably, like $25,000 to get that one. Graphic design. They're probably just trying to get their. [01:10:10] Speaker C: Money'S worth out of it. [01:10:11] Speaker B: Happens so much. I guess they have to show it. But it's like whatever that little thing is. Like pot the wheel. When the lug nut goes over it. [01:10:19] Speaker C: That's it. [01:10:19] Speaker B: Obviously the lug is like tightened with threads. But that also pops out to like. [01:10:23] Speaker C: Keep it, you know, secure on there. [01:10:26] Speaker A: So your hack of the week is the. The Fox broadcast. Showing the the lug nut going bro. [01:10:31] Speaker B: My hack the week could be the Fox broadcast every race day broadcast. So I have to pick something else because it could be Fox every single time. The way Clint Boyer and Kevin Harvick like disrespect Mike joy. They act like he's not even in the booth. Clint and Kevin just joke around. Kevin says basically is like I'm better than you. And your driving career sucked. Which Clint boy's driving career sucked. So it is what it is. And all that mixed together with having cameras 2 miles away or camera on Chase Elliott's asshole here. There's no in between. It's just fucking awful. [01:11:04] Speaker C: Fox sucks. [01:11:06] Speaker A: Hack of the week Fox broadcast. [01:11:08] Speaker B: And I'm so, so excited that they, NBC did that whatever deal for the Cw to get the Xfinity series early for the last eight races. I'm so excited for Amazon. I'm so excited for the CW to come in and there to be some actual rivalries in the broadcasting world because it's just been the same two people with no competition since 2000. [01:11:32] Speaker C: 2000? I was four years old. Like, give me a break. Well, it's not my hack of the week though. [01:11:40] Speaker B: That's not my damn. [01:11:41] Speaker A: So what is your hack of the week, Dawson? [01:11:43] Speaker C: Marcus Smith. Ooh, Marcus Smith. [01:11:46] Speaker B: For having me feud with Denny Hamlin and then having the damn pile on tore down. So no one at the racetrack has any idea? I've never been to a racetrack. Not even the fucking wrong speedway. We can tell who's in what spot at wrong speedway. They don't know one at the track. You, Stephen. [01:12:03] Speaker C: You have. [01:12:03] Speaker B: Unless you have your cell phone or you listen to the scanner or something. [01:12:06] Speaker C: You have no idea who to tell. [01:12:08] Speaker B: You what lap it is, who's in first, who's intent. Nothing. You have no. [01:12:12] Speaker C: You. [01:12:13] Speaker B: You're just there watching cars going around a track. [01:12:15] Speaker C: Hope you enjoy this because we did. [01:12:18] Speaker A: They not put up the scoring on big Haas. Did you see that Steven tv monitor? [01:12:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:12:24] Speaker B: The scoring runs across the bottom of big hoss. [01:12:26] Speaker C: Yes. [01:12:27] Speaker D: So they did have a big like jumbo Tron. But it wasn't. It wasn't, like, very, you know, it was still a little confusing. [01:12:35] Speaker C: I mean, they had the lap up there, but, you know. [01:12:37] Speaker B: Yeah, there's nothing confusing about the pylon pylons. This big ass thing up there. Here's what lap we're on, and we got a first position, car number, second. [01:12:46] Speaker C: Position car number, third position car number. Marcus Smith's like, no, just take that away. [01:12:52] Speaker B: So take that away. After you have this big argument with Denny Hamlin and say, you don't know what we do. This Denny Hamlin saying, y'all don't reinvest your money. Whatever. The crowd looked great at Texas yesterday, by the way, on tv. I don't know how it looked there, but look great on tv. [01:13:05] Speaker D: It was for. [01:13:07] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:13:08] Speaker C: I love to hear that show. [01:13:10] Speaker B: Take down the score and pile on with all that. [01:13:12] Speaker C: And then you don't have the fucking lots working. You got to be kid Smith. [01:13:17] Speaker B: What are the happening? [01:13:19] Speaker C: You know, it's just pretty good when his SMI made himself look like a. [01:13:27] Speaker B: Looney tune after saying all that stuff. [01:13:30] Speaker C: And then the first race that he. [01:13:33] Speaker B: Hosts after this argument, you have these two massive things. [01:13:37] Speaker C: And then, naturally, there's way more people. [01:13:39] Speaker B: On Denny Hamlin side than Marcus Smith's side. There's no one at the racetrack. It's like, man, I love Marcus Smith. This is awesome. I love not being able to see what the hell is going on. You know? [01:13:47] Speaker C: Like, no one's on his side. [01:13:49] Speaker B: So then after this argument, you just did this, and now they're just a fuel on the fire on social media. [01:13:55] Speaker C: Dude, just like, what are you thinking? Yeah. [01:13:58] Speaker B: And he doesn't care because he's worth half a billion dollars, and he lives in a humongous house and has his wife and his kids, and he's like. [01:14:06] Speaker C: You know, what's it matter to him? I don't even know if it does matter to him. Damn straight. Who's your hack of the week? [01:14:13] Speaker A: My hack of the week, without a doubt and unequivocally, is Sam Mayer. He wins the xfinity race by the. [01:14:22] Speaker C: Smallest, tiniest little margin ever. And everything was going right. I didn't have a single problem with anything that happened. Then he gets out of the car. [01:14:32] Speaker A: Gives that interview, and right after the interview is over, he has got to. [01:14:36] Speaker C: Do the dumbest looking fake pistol, opening. [01:14:41] Speaker A: His chest like the goofiest little celebration. After he gets out of the car, even me and Alison stop what we were doing, looked at the tv, and I turned back and looked at her. [01:14:53] Speaker C: And her look was so disgusted and turned off. [01:14:58] Speaker A: She was like, oh, I hate him. Immediately for that little celebration, he just off the Sam. [01:15:05] Speaker B: Sam immediately. [01:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. The Sam married train departed, and I was sitting at the. Sitting at the station with my ticket in hand, looking good. Glad to see you go. [01:15:16] Speaker D: Because I don't know if they probably didn't show victory lane, but they give the winners cowboy hats, right? [01:15:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:23] Speaker D: Then somebody from his team, like, put the cowboy hunt out him, and then they put their hat on top of the cowboy hat. I'm like, no, like, the whole point of winning in Texas, just the cowboy hat. Like, you don't put your ball cap on top of the cowboy. [01:15:38] Speaker A: That's incredible, man. Holy crap. [01:15:41] Speaker B: They used to give you two pistols when you wanted Texas, but since 2024, that is no longer a thing. So I think they're after that, too. [01:15:49] Speaker C: Yeah, no, it was just hilarious. I mean, it was straight up a. [01:15:55] Speaker A: Rip the shirt open, brush the dust off of the suit. I was like, dude, you look like a fool right now. You are the only one this happy for you right now. You've got to see the clip. If anything, I will post it on our Instagram story for razeriety racing. I'm gonna tag him in there. [01:16:16] Speaker C: It was ridiculous. So that's awesome. [01:16:20] Speaker A: Anyways, that's my hack of the week. It looks like Riverside may be having some sort of issue on my end. [01:16:26] Speaker C: So hopefully this all records, but you're very. I am. [01:16:33] Speaker A: That's that at and t gig wi fi for you. Big shout out to at and t. [01:16:37] Speaker C: There's a reason Xfinity can sponsor the Xfinity series. You just go away. [01:16:42] Speaker D: That could have been perfect timing ever. [01:16:47] Speaker C: Big shout out, and then it like. [01:16:50] Speaker B: A pop and it just goes away. Well, that. [01:16:54] Speaker C: We lost him. [01:16:57] Speaker B: Oh, my God. This is incredible. Oh, he's out. He's out. [01:17:02] Speaker C: He's gone. Well, Stephen, thanks for coming on. [01:17:06] Speaker B: This is, you know, obviously. Listen, we usually do, like an hour. We're at hour 15, so thanks for coming on. We're at Big Bad Talladega this weekend. [01:17:14] Speaker C: Which is freaking God's country. [01:17:17] Speaker B: That's the I'll be watching exciting race of the year, in my opinion. [01:17:21] Speaker C: So Talladega should be next on your list of places to attend. I can't wait, man. [01:17:29] Speaker D: I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm a NASCAR fan, and whoever's listening, if you're thinking about getting an nASCAR, just do it. It's worth. [01:17:36] Speaker C: It's worth every. [01:17:37] Speaker B: It second. [01:17:38] Speaker D: Just dive in. [01:17:39] Speaker C: It's. [01:17:39] Speaker A: It's. [01:17:40] Speaker D: I know you think they're just turning left and going in a circle, but it's just. [01:17:43] Speaker C: It's. Yeah. [01:17:43] Speaker D: A million times more than that. [01:17:45] Speaker C: It's exciting. Totally. [01:17:47] Speaker B: Oh, Caleb's coming back. [01:17:48] Speaker C: It looks like. Are you there? Are you there, Caleb? Oh, you can't hear us. [01:18:03] Speaker D: He's concentrating. He's got the concentrating face on right now. He's trying to figure it out. [01:18:08] Speaker C: Holy shit. This is awesome. [01:18:11] Speaker B: Um, since we're still on air, Stephen, when we leave this, don't press, uh. Don't press leave. [01:18:19] Speaker C: Okay. [01:18:20] Speaker B: He said no clue what's going on since he started this. I don't know if he. [01:18:24] Speaker C: Who. If we can even end this thing. Um. We kind of look like idiots here. I kind of like an idiot here. That's all right. Well, so. [01:18:36] Speaker D: So what's, uh, what's. What's new for you in the. [01:18:39] Speaker C: On the music side of thing? [01:18:40] Speaker D: You said y'all just. I know y'all talk about tour all the time or y'all go back to work this weekend. [01:18:46] Speaker B: Yes, we are in, uh. We're in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio with Travis this weekend. And that's going great. You know, we're doing these, uh, rock. [01:18:56] Speaker C: Country shows, which are, you know, there's. [01:19:00] Speaker B: Just a lot going on is the only way I know to say it. [01:19:03] Speaker C: Um, but, yeah. [01:19:05] Speaker B: And then on my side of things, I just started like two weeks ago, started working on a new project, put. [01:19:10] Speaker C: Four songs out this year, which would be cool, but. Yeah. How about you? How's everything going? [01:19:16] Speaker D: Awesome. By the time this podcast comes out, I will have announced a new song. I'm doing a collab. My buddy Alex Smith coming out, I believe, this Friday. [01:19:25] Speaker B: So I saw all the teases for this. [01:19:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:19:29] Speaker B: Okay. [01:19:30] Speaker A: I'm back. I'm back, boys. [01:19:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:19:33] Speaker D: So, yeah, by the time this comes. [01:19:35] Speaker C: Out, yeah, we will announce it. So. And that's awesome. [01:19:40] Speaker D: And then, you know, there's. There's a song that me and old Dawson right here have written together that I should by the end of next week, have the. [01:19:49] Speaker B: Yeah. For it, buddy. [01:19:53] Speaker D: That could be the summer song of 2024 if all goes plan and I get it back in time. [01:19:58] Speaker B: So I just want everyone to know. [01:20:01] Speaker C: So we wrote this song, what, probably last year. Yeah, the end of last year. [01:20:06] Speaker B: It wasn't. I don't think it was summertime. We wrote the song. But anyway, when I turn this song in. So you turn a song in. You got the title and all the stuff. Well, in the subject bar. Put the title of the song. [01:20:16] Speaker C: Dash. This is a hit song. Love it. [01:20:20] Speaker B: And I told Stephen about that, and I was like, dude, I got to show you that. I actually put this. [01:20:24] Speaker C: Like, I turned this in this way. [01:20:26] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's a. I'm pumped about. [01:20:28] Speaker A: That's confident. [01:20:29] Speaker B: Yeah, super pumped about it. [01:20:30] Speaker D: I'm excited for y'all to hear the full studio version of it. [01:20:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:20:35] Speaker B: It's gonna be awesome. [01:20:36] Speaker C: I'm. [01:20:36] Speaker B: I really am. [01:20:37] Speaker C: I'm super pumped about it. Heck, yeah. [01:20:40] Speaker B: But, yeah, Caleb, you were talking. You were absolutely digging on at amp. [01:20:44] Speaker C: T. We hear this, and you just go away. Yep. [01:20:49] Speaker A: This is why. This is why the Xfinity series isn't sponsored by at AMP T. I'll tell you that much. But either way, we managed to get it figured out. I could think I just lost momentary Internet connection. Utilities around here has been a crapshoot lately, so you never know what you're gonna get. [01:21:07] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [01:21:08] Speaker B: Well, we were kind of wrapping it up right when you came back on, so we. Everybody follow Stephen Paul on social media. [01:21:15] Speaker A: Do it. [01:21:15] Speaker C: Stephen. Stephen Paul. [01:21:17] Speaker B: Music on. Everything. [01:21:18] Speaker C: Correct. Yes. [01:21:20] Speaker D: I think maybe Twitter. Maybe, like, Stephen Paul or something. But, yeah, if you just type in Stephen Paul, then it should pop up. [01:21:26] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:21:26] Speaker C: Yeah. We'll find it on there. [01:21:29] Speaker B: And don't forget everywhere for me. [01:21:32] Speaker A: And follow favorite idiot with an Austin Dillon obsession. Caleb con rowdy. Follow me everywhere. Just look for the blue sunglasses. If you're confused and there's a lot of a's on the page, you're probably. [01:21:44] Speaker C: Over on Dawson's page now that he's my newest sunglass supporter. Hell, yeah. [01:21:52] Speaker A: Hey, by the way, your mom did send me pictures of the crock pot that you had out at your. At your cookout the other day. [01:21:58] Speaker C: So we know that the Crock pot recipes are working. [01:22:01] Speaker A: We appreciate y'all sending those in every week. [01:22:04] Speaker C: Cream cheese. [01:22:05] Speaker B: What you think was in there? [01:22:06] Speaker A: What did I think was in that crock pot? [01:22:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:22:08] Speaker B: What do you think was in there? [01:22:09] Speaker C: Oh, I'm gonna guess some sort of dip bowl. Peanuts. [01:22:14] Speaker A: Boil peanuts. Why did I not think of this guy? [01:22:17] Speaker D: He's from Georgia. [01:22:18] Speaker A: He's so many times think of it. I'm sorry. I haven't had boiled peanuts in too long. I haven't been around Georgia much. [01:22:27] Speaker C: Yeah, we had a. I'm not gonna lie. [01:22:30] Speaker B: Last or sat? Yeah, last Saturday. One of the best Saturdays I have ever had in my entire life. [01:22:37] Speaker C: It was a dude. [01:22:40] Speaker B: We had. We had. So we had, like, all of Lindsey's family over all of my family over. My mom and dad were both there. Like, we had the chickens out in the backyard, Ramsay's out. We set a tent up, had all these tables. We went and bought shrimp and sausage and corn and onions and taters, bought some Louisiana crawfish, bull seasoning that would roast your butthole. It was so spicy. It was tasted incredible. [01:23:08] Speaker C: I love it. [01:23:09] Speaker B: But boiled peanuts. Mom made some dips and we literally. [01:23:14] Speaker C: Hung out outside from like noon until. [01:23:17] Speaker B: I didn't go to bed till 01:00. [01:23:19] Speaker C: A.M. Had a fire. It was awesome. [01:23:22] Speaker B: Everything about it, it was just incredible. [01:23:24] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. You love to hear it. You love to hear it. [01:23:29] Speaker A: Well, we appreciate y'all making it to the end of this podcast. Everybody's favorite texan, everybody's favorite closet Alabama. [01:23:37] Speaker C: Fan, and of course, our special guest, Stephen Paul, soon to be the new Tim McGraw. [01:23:44] Speaker A: Just wait for it. He's on his way. [01:23:46] Speaker B: And you really will think he'll be there. [01:23:49] Speaker A: Absolutely. But anyway, thanks for your, thanks for coming in, Stephen. We'll probably have to have you on closer to the championship weekend to get your full on season review as your. [01:23:58] Speaker C: First time NASCAR fan. [01:24:00] Speaker A: We're, we're definitely excited to see what you have to say next Sunday. [01:24:04] Speaker C: Absolutely. [01:24:05] Speaker D: Have me excited to hear the, you know, see the big race this weekend, so. [01:24:10] Speaker C: Damn straight. Where are we even going? [01:24:12] Speaker A: I lost count. [01:24:13] Speaker B: Oh, Talladega fucking day. Good man. [01:24:15] Speaker A: Your first Talladega experience. You ready to watch Ryan Blaney win? [01:24:18] Speaker C: Because, by God, I'm here. [01:24:22] Speaker D: So quick, quick question before we end this thing. What should I expect this weekend? What style of racing is going to be this weekend? [01:24:28] Speaker A: Atlanta, but a whole mile longer. [01:24:30] Speaker B: Daytona. [01:24:31] Speaker A: Atlanta a whole mile longer. Just like Atlanta. [01:24:33] Speaker C: Daytona. [01:24:35] Speaker A: And, okay, it's just redneck paradise. [01:24:37] Speaker C: This is where rednecks go to find. [01:24:41] Speaker A: Out where they're going after they die because it's probably the last place they're. [01:24:43] Speaker C: Ever going to see it almost, it. [01:24:46] Speaker A: Almost collected me and Dawson a few years back. [01:24:49] Speaker B: It is a. That's what I was saying, caleb, you were off here, but I was like, your next experience has to be Talladega. Like it is. [01:24:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:58] Speaker B: I still have repercussions in my insides from a Talladega accident that I had. [01:25:06] Speaker A: And turn through the dirt track will. [01:25:08] Speaker B: Not be so same thing like you. [01:25:10] Speaker C: Experienced at, uh, Texas. [01:25:13] Speaker B: There's a dirt track at Daytona, Talladega. [01:25:16] Speaker C: Right outside the facility. And, uh, we can end on this. [01:25:20] Speaker B: Awesome story here, Caleb. [01:25:22] Speaker C: Caleb. [01:25:22] Speaker B: Me and my dad got there like, a day before Caleb and Caleb's coming in. We're at the dirt track race, and it's pitch black dark. [01:25:28] Speaker C: And I'm on the phone with Caleb. [01:25:30] Speaker B: And I'm, you know, I'm trying to find him. He's trying to find me. Like I said, it's pitch black dark. [01:25:35] Speaker C: And next thing I know, just, boom, I'm in a hole. [01:25:39] Speaker B: And I land all my weight just on this side of my body. And all the air and breath leaves. [01:25:48] Speaker C: My body, and I just hear just crack. [01:25:52] Speaker B: And, uh, there's a fellow walking towards me, and he was like, dude, are you all right? And I go, yeah, I think I'm good. He's like, all right. [01:25:59] Speaker C: I'm white. [01:25:59] Speaker B: Like, I didn't see that. And that's still, like, my favorite thing that he's ever been said about it. But, uh, I get up, dude, and my. My ribs were broke. I think, like, my ribs were broken, and I was just in pain for still am. [01:26:17] Speaker C: Like, I still have pain, like, all. [01:26:20] Speaker B: Over this area still to this day. And, like, if I take my shirt off, like, if you look down my body, I have, like, an indention right here. Like, this sides, like, all the way straight down. [01:26:30] Speaker C: This side is, like, indented right here. So I think there's, like, still some. [01:26:35] Speaker B: Issues going on there. [01:26:37] Speaker C: We, uh. [01:26:38] Speaker B: After that weekend, I had a family vacation to Panama City. So I literally left Talladega and went to Panama City, which was a hellacious, like, ten day span. [01:26:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:26:47] Speaker A: Wild turnaround. [01:26:48] Speaker B: But, dude, I couldn't, like, there was days, like, my mom, like, literally rubbed some, like, cream on my back. I was so, like, in pain. [01:26:56] Speaker C: So, yeah, my back still hurts. [01:26:59] Speaker B: From Talladega. That was 2019, by the way. [01:27:01] Speaker A: It loses scars. So, in other words, we need to get you down there real soon, Stephen. So that way, we gotta put you through your paces. [01:27:08] Speaker C: Maybe October will work out. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. All right, well, go. [01:27:14] Speaker B: Follow, raise. [01:27:14] Speaker A: Rowdy racing everywhere I follow raised rowdy Matt Burrell or Matt Barrel and raise Roddy Nicky T. I always get those backwards. [01:27:21] Speaker C: I don't know why, but either way. [01:27:24] Speaker A: Thanks, everybody, for listening. [01:27:26] Speaker B: We will catch you later after Talladegger deuces. [01:27:31] Speaker C: But you can hear me coming from a mile and a half away these good years can handle dirt don't need no curves I make up with four by four I'm in and out of traffic till I make it to your door checkers records my rifle tapered on the gas I'm making my way to you, girl iron hard, fast.