S2 Episode 18: Iowa Barn Burner

[00:00:05] Speaker A: This is Ray's rowdy racing with Caleb Conrady and Dawson Edwards. Oh, man. Had to break out the mexican restaurant for margaritas. Deep drunk squeal on here. [00:00:19] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. We knew Blaney to get one eventually. [00:00:23] Speaker A: I knew he would finally do it. I knew it would happen eventually. I didn't expect it to be here, but, hell, I'm all for it. I am super ecstatic, man. Finally on the damn board with one. [00:00:35] Speaker B: Could have. [00:00:36] Speaker A: Not having to worry about two. Now has one. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. [00:00:41] Speaker B: But now has five. [00:00:43] Speaker A: Seven. But who's counting? [00:00:46] Speaker B: He's. So he's got two stage wins? [00:00:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, he's got two stage wins. One of them came in Iowa. [00:00:52] Speaker B: Here's something that I've been looking at that I. I guess. I don't know if I've not noticed it or what, but if you. So say you don't have a winner, right? [00:01:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:02] Speaker B: And you're in. And they're showing the point standings and you're not in yellow. So we'll take Blainey, for example. And this is like a hypothetical situation, because looking at the board, I can't remember who all is one stage stages throughout the year, right? [00:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Okay, so say Blaney, and we'll just be hypothetical here and say he's won a few stages this year before this win happened. So say he has three. Two, three points. You know, whatever. Do you not do those points not show up until you get a win? [00:01:33] Speaker A: No. [00:01:34] Speaker B: So, like, you get the five points. Boom. Then it shows you got eight. Like, you get the win, then it pops up. You got eight points. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Nine point. Okay. [00:01:42] Speaker A: The points it shows below the cut line are simply stage and finishing position points. But it has nothing to do with playoff points because the playoff points do not matter for regular season standings. [00:01:53] Speaker B: I got you. [00:01:54] Speaker A: And then once you get into the offseason, that's where those points. Or if you get the win, then it just shows you how many wins you got and how many total playoff points. [00:02:01] Speaker B: Then it shows it doesn't matter otherwise. We're in the middle of the podcast. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Dawson's answer and phone calls. And it's two minutes in. We hit the two minute warning. Dawson's answering. [00:02:14] Speaker B: How to make that. [00:02:15] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's hilarious. Somebody giving you a crock pot recipe right now live on the air. [00:02:23] Speaker B: Okay. [00:02:23] Speaker A: I think Dawson Edwards just got a crock pot recipe live on the air. [00:02:27] Speaker B: I got a chicken. [00:02:28] Speaker A: I don't know how to make that chicken brunch ring. [00:02:31] Speaker B: I don't know how to make that. [00:02:32] Speaker A: That sounds way too white girl wasted for you. There's not enough mimosas in the world to turn you into that much of a basic girl. [00:02:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just not laying. I'm not laying crescent rolls on a piece of paper and putting all this shit in it and then wrapping it up. Let's just. [00:02:51] Speaker A: That sounds like some chick on tick tock in a house that's way too white with granite countertops, telling you how to make some crappy food that nobody's ever going to make. And she thinks she's a genius for. [00:03:02] Speaker B: Doing incredible because Lindsey's sister makes it. You know what? We had? You've had it as well. The morning of the wedding when everybody was drinking mimosas and stuff. That stuff that was, like, all chopped up, that was kind of in little bite sized pieces. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Or that we, like, pulled apart or whatever it was. That's chicken brunch ring. It tastes great. [00:03:25] Speaker A: Gotcha. [00:03:25] Speaker B: But it's just. It's, like, not in my realm of, uh, things I like to make. [00:03:31] Speaker A: Why. Why are you getting the phone call? Who. What event are you making this for? [00:03:36] Speaker B: Supposedly, uh, it's for supper tonight. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Oh. Gotcha. Damn. She should have just sent you a crock pot recipe, man. That's what we were looking for. It had been perfect. We're just off the rails immediately on this Monday morning. It's a slow start. I'm a little hungover, as you can imagine. Nothing crazy, but had a good old time yesterday. We had our first off weekend forever where we didn't have anything scheduled. Yeah. [00:04:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a. Kind of felt weird. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it did. Allison got a call on Thursday night that hasten that runs live oak needed a round field from 130 to 530 yesterday on Sunday. And I didn't even know until you texted me in the morning that the night that it was a night race that we were going to have for. [00:04:33] Speaker B: I didn't know. I didn't know until the day before the race. My phone. You know, me and you have the. The schedule on our phone. [00:04:39] Speaker A: Yeah, it was noticed. Okay, we supposed to start, like, 11:00 p.m. or midnight last night, according to. [00:04:46] Speaker B: The schedule originally looked at the thing I look each week to, like, see what the next race is. [00:04:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that's exactly where. [00:04:52] Speaker B: To God, it said 330. I swear to God, it said 330. And then I saw somewhere online that it said seven. Well, then I go back and look at my phone. It said 12:30 a.m. yeah, I was like, when does this race start? I don't know. And then I think we look guide on the tv. [00:05:08] Speaker A: Yeah. I think Clint Boyer got in charge of the other scheduling thing, and nobody said anything because it was just hopping all over the place because I noticed the same thing. I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. [00:05:23] Speaker B: Yeah, me neither. But anyway, found out it was a not race. [00:05:27] Speaker A: Yeah. And so we had this round that Allison had to book last minute, so she asked me to play it. We put me at 130 so I could try to be done by the time the race started. When we thought at 230, because that's when it usually starts. Next thing you know, you text me in the morning, I'm like, oh, crap, babe, you're gonna hate this, but this is a night race. So we hung out at Live Oak all the way from 130 to, like, 530, and then got back to the house, and I got here about an hour late. And one thing that I did not remember about NBC was that they do not have the B's commercial breaks that Fox does. So that's the first thing I want to say is, I'm so excited we have NBC back. [00:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah, we're definitely going to get into that at some point. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Oh, I'm into it right now because I told y'all I'm going to catch up because Dawson and Steven and I were texting like we always do, and I get home about 45 minutes after the race starts, and I tried to catch up because on Fox, I would say I probably would have caught up to y'all by about the end of stage two because of the number of commercial breaks and breakaways and b's that I don't want to watch watching on NBC. I still was behind when the race ended by, like, 20 to 25, 30 minutes. So that tells you there's an extra 30 minutes that I was supposed to have to catch back up to y'all in cautions or not cautions, but commercials, that just never happened because we had NBC, and it was a killer broadcast. Every single moment of the race. You were intrigued by it. They were giving you good information the whole time. I just didn't. I didn't have anything I could skip, so I just had to watch the whole thing about 20 to 50 minutes behind because I couldn't catch up. And that is not a complaint. That is such a phenomenal feeling. But the race coverage was just absolutely stellar yesterday. I'm so glad we're back with NBC. I think the Jeff Gluck poll just naturally gains, like, five points per race just because NBC is the one covering it. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just even just as small as just the dag practice and qualifying and the bush race is everything leading up to it is just so much more like not a joke. It feels like, like. Yeah, it just feels like everything is taken seriously. It show, like, I love Jeff burton being up in the crowd. Like the bush race had a ton of fans there. I mean, shout out to Iowa for showing out. I mean, I heard the ticket sold out within like two days. [00:08:04] Speaker A: 2 hours. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Like 2 hours. Yeah, something crazy. [00:08:08] Speaker A: So shout out to people, dude, dude. [00:08:11] Speaker B: A post race show that everyone was posting about on Twitter, me included. [00:08:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:17] Speaker B: Like showing Blaney doing the hat dance, like interviewing the whole, like, top ten, interviewing all the guys. Like, it was just like, wow, that's what you want. [00:08:26] Speaker A: And it wasn't even the b's questions that we've been getting for the first, like twelve weeks. It was three to four questions that were legitimate, really good questions that the drivers had to kind of answer. It wasn't just like leaving out at the end of a sentence and just hoping they knew what to say. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Well, no matter what, if you ask questions before race, which Fox is all about, having 3 hours before the race going off air as soon as the race is over, when it should be the opposite, you could ask every driver in the field before race, all the answers going to be stereotypical. It doesn't matter because all it is is we got a good so and so, so and so, so and so this weekend and, you know, hoping to have a good race. Yada, yada, yada, yada. [00:09:08] Speaker A: Missed a little bit in practice, but we've put some adjustments in it. [00:09:11] Speaker B: We're hoping after the race you're going to get. Even if you asked, even if you ask stereotypical questions after a race, you get unstereotypical answers because it's fresh off of what just happened. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Which is the, the best part. I mean, the post race is, I mean, people want 30 minutes pre race, an hour, hour and a half post race. It's always been completely like pre race. There's only so much you can talk about. [00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah, completely agree with that, man. It's, it's a lot more entertaining, too, because you get all the, the heat from the drivers that are mad, the disappointment from the driver that finished second, the elation of the driver that finished in first. You just don't get that before a race. And you get more storylines that way, too. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Because most people, whenever their emotions are still high, they're going to give you something to talk about. They're going to have something to talk about. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:07] Speaker A: So. Couldn't agree more. I was, I was really happy that they, uh, that they have that huge post race. They have guys sitting around a booth analyzing the race after it's done. I mean, it was a full on, what, 30 to 45 minutes? [00:10:21] Speaker B: I don't know. But I watched the whole, we said it was, we sat and watched all of it while we were still sitting on the couch. Like, it was just like, I don't know, it gives, it's like a, it's like a come down after the race, you know what I mean? [00:10:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Fox leaves you hanging and then you got to go straight to Twitter to see anything. I felt like yesterday I saw everything on the tv and I didn't have, you didn't have to go to Twitter to figure out what was happening here, what was happening there. And you got to see, like I said, why don't you do the hat dance? Which is like, victory Lane stuff is just a lost cause no matter what. Nowadays, it's just lost in general. So, like, I'm a fan of, like, seeing victory Lane and seeing the, you know, all the, all the, you know, champagne and beer and body armor that gets slung everywhere. Like, yeah, especially as a kid, I've told this story. I don't know if I've told this story on here, but, like, as a kid, like a little kid, like, in the summertime, like, going outside and grabbing the water hose and, like, putting your finger over it. [00:11:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:25] Speaker B: Like, over the end, it made you feel like I was, like, that's how I'd be. Like, I'm celebrating a win. Like, you know, spraying it everywhere. [00:11:32] Speaker A: Yeah, spraying the champagne out of the water hose. [00:11:34] Speaker B: Exactly. That no longer, like, no kid that watches racing now even knows about all that stuff. Like, it was so fun to me and it maybe was because I was a kid, I don't know, but I still seemed to enjoy it. But, like, it was so fun to me to see, like, all the guys, like, throwing all the beer and all the stuff, you know, all over him. And, like, when Dale junior won a race, his thing was like, he would jump off the door of the car, like, into the crew guys, kind of like a stage dive kind of thing. [00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:03] Speaker B: And I don't know. I just love the victory lane stuff. And apparently it was a big, all this sponsorship deal was. This whole issue back in the day used to be called Gatorade Victory Lane. And you had drivers that were sponsored by companies that didn't make Gatorade and this, that and other. And they knocked the big bottles off the top. Whatever. All that's just b's, in my opinion. But now it's called, like, the what? Roth roof mortgage. Victory line mortgage. Yes. [00:12:32] Speaker A: Victory lane. [00:12:33] Speaker B: No one's sponsored by that. So put me a little thing there on the hood of the car. On the. On the roof of the car and let the driver get out and celebrate and get covered with confetti. That was another thing I remember back in the day. A driver would have all the sweat and beer and all over his face. Yeah. Betty would stick their face and stuff, and their wife or girlfriend or someone would give him a towel or, like, help him wipe it off, like, all of that. [00:12:55] Speaker A: That's incredible. [00:12:56] Speaker B: Long gone. That no one has seen since. Hell, I thought they've been doing victory lane interviews for, like, ten years or something. It's been a minute since they quit doing that. [00:13:06] Speaker A: I remember them, but it's been a minute since they've been regular, for sure. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:10] Speaker A: And. And I want to look at the diecast I'm about to order, because I have a tradition. Every time that Blaney wins, the first thing I do immediately is go and buy the die cast. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:19] Speaker A: So I can get the wind I cast, and I think it's projected to arrive in, like, February. So it's something you don't need to. [00:13:25] Speaker B: Sure. [00:13:26] Speaker A: Yeah. It takes closing in on a year to get your diecast in after you order it, right after the race, which I wish we could speed that process up, but I know it takes a lot more. And there's. They're got to make a shitload of diecast. There's only one company that really does a whole lot of it, but I wish we could get it a lot sooner because whenever it finally arrives, I almost have to remember what race he. [00:13:45] Speaker B: Won the last year. [00:13:46] Speaker A: Yeah, but. So I bought that. And it's just cool because I get to see what it's going to look like. I got to see that it had confetti on it that's a yellow and green looking like horn. And got to see them do, like, holding those ears of corn up and having his 90 family members all up there. It was so much. So much of it is so cool. And it's such a great moment that you get to witness somebody go through that you just don't get normally. So I was ecstatic to the whole post race thing, the whole coverage, everything. NBC just. I don't even thought about it yesterday. It's like NBC genuinely cares that they're giving you quality content, whereas Fox almost just is. Well, we, we have NASCAR on here because it gives us a solid, you know, 1.4 to 3.2 million viewers at one time. Gives us a lot more. It gives us something to sell ads to. [00:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:41] Speaker A: They can see is almost just like, we're here to show you NASCAR. We just have to have ads to support it. Fox is saying we need to sell advertisements and we need NASCAR because it gets enough people on there watching it to make those spots worth more. [00:14:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:56] Speaker A: The more obvious. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah. The more I think about it, the more I just kind of hate that Fox is in this next deal. Like, it's just kind of like, man, like, it just, it just, it just comes across as. They don't care. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, they're there to sell advertisements. NBC's there to show you quality content. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:17] Speaker A: So that's, that's my hot take of the day. [00:15:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I want to see, yeah. You know, I want to, I want to, I want, you know, canceling race day and just kind of half assed in the broadcast and stuff. It just kind of seems like Fox is like, over it or something. [00:15:31] Speaker A: I don't know, getting out of race hub, too. I mean. [00:15:33] Speaker B: Yeah, and race up. Not canceling race. I meant race up. Sorry. [00:15:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it's, it just is. I don't know. They've done a lot for the sport in the history of Fox, and that deserves some recognition. But we're talking about right now and the quality of content that they're giving us. I mean, they're not updating their stat lines. They're not updating their graphics. They're giving us stuff from two days ago. Two weeks ago. [00:15:56] Speaker B: They literally give you wrong stats on. [00:15:58] Speaker A: The, they give you wrong stats all the time. Enough so that people are just watching for it. And that's just, that just tells you everything you need to know. Yeah, it's, but, yeah, so it just, it made it impossible. I watched the whole thing about 30 minutes behind, so I was watching y'all texting some stuff and I knew that Blaney was up there and running good and nobody was saying anything. So I was just kind of after, once I got to about 50 laps to go on my, where I was at, I just put my phone down and stopped paying attention to it just in case because I didn't want any spoilers coming through if something happened after gateway, I'm a little scarred. Until he crosses the checkered. Until he gets the checkered flag. I don't believe anything. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Yeah, they. When. When they put the little ticker at the top and it's like a gas gauge and shows how much gas they all got left. And Blainey's was in the red and the crew chief says they have enough gas. And it's like, I just. I wonder if Bunny believes that. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I know you get a little bit of a PTSD on that one. [00:16:55] Speaker B: Yeah, he was. I would assume he was gun shy on that. On that situation there, but, yeah, great showing for Iowa. It. Everybody, like, going into the race, definitely Christopher Bell and all these. Even Christopher Bell after the race said, like, this would have been a barn burner on old Iowa, which, you know. [00:17:19] Speaker A: Spoken like the top Toyota that struggled all day long to do. [00:17:22] Speaker B: We'll never know. [00:17:22] Speaker A: The top five. [00:17:23] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll never know. But it. Everybody told us before the race started, before a car touched the track, it was going to be a parade around the bottom. And that's not what happened with. They had tire wear. Tires mattered. You could run and you could run up. Not in the gray line, but there was a second line in that darker stuff. They even talked about in the bush race with Jeremy Clements when he got up there and when he stayed out, he came up, he ran that outside line and boom, pulled back out. And then they're like, what? You know, Jeremy sees that. He's like, learns grip up here. You know, I'm going to. I'm going to use this. And he used that outside line to his advantage there for a little bit, but, yeah, overall, I just thought it was a good race. [00:18:04] Speaker A: I mean, there was just a. Yeah, it was phenomenal. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I liked how the stages were like 71, 41, 40. I liked that, um, two tire people, obviously, two tires who just, you know, had some strategy, had some, saw what two tires could do, tires had better. [00:18:23] Speaker A: Tire recording and everything. [00:18:25] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, I like. I love the uncertainty of the, of the tire situation. That's. That is great. I wish we had that every single week somewhere. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it was really strange, too, to see it was Blaney Logano. And there was one other car that I cannot remember right now, who the third was on that last stop that took two tires. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:48] Speaker A: Instead of taking four. And when that happened, I immediately. My heart sank. I was like, no way. We just pitted with two tires to get track position when we were in like, what, six? [00:19:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't gain five spots. I didn't think it was going to be worth it either. Yeah. [00:19:05] Speaker A: So apparently it was right side wear left side tires still just like camels always been talking about. Left side tires aren't wearing still. But I. It just seemed like if you did what I guess Jonathan Hassler did and set the car up with a really good balance, I think it was. It's almost like Blaine didn't really have to worry as much. Byron to Blaney. Byron, anybody was running up in those top five spots, I feel like they didn't really have to worry about the tires going out on them quite as much as everybody else back in the pack. I don't know if that's because they're racing harder on them in the early part of the runs, trying to get track position or what, but it just seemed like it wasn't nearly as big of a, of an ordeal for them because they were running pretty damn quick lap times. [00:19:51] Speaker B: They just had good cars. [00:19:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:53] Speaker B: And I guess, yeah, I think that had a lot to do with it, because you saw Corey Joy put two tires on early in the race, and there was a couple guys that stayed out, and Larson shot the middle and had them all passed by the time they exited turn two, and it just did not work, and they felt like rock and. Yeah, I also think that the only thing that made me want. There's two things. One, those cars weren't as good as Blaney's, obviously. And two, it was still in the middle of the height of the racetrack as well. [00:20:25] Speaker A: Yeah, no doubt. It definitely, once it got cooled off. I think you're right. It definitely helped out with the. The idea of taking two tires really wasn't too big of a gamble. [00:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah, but it was crazy. [00:20:36] Speaker A: But it felt like one whenever they. [00:20:38] Speaker B: Did feel like one. But it was also crazy to me how they were talking about two, um, with tire wear. You have tire wear one because it was super hot and the track was slick and whatever, and they were going really fast in the. In the dark asphalt. But then when it got cooler, they picked up so much speed that the extra speed made the tires wear out fast. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Which was also giving me that, like, uncertainty to keep me, uh, like, uh, what's, like, honed in, like, zoned in about the tire situation throughout the whole race. [00:21:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:10] Speaker B: Always loved, like, the coke 600. You know, this race, a lot of races that start one way and end a different way. When it's starting, the daylight, in the. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Dark, you gotta chase the track. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I love that. And I love. They talk about that, and I do remember back in the day when, like, they would run these races like that, and it was like, if your car. And then they talked about it on the broadcast, but it didn't really change a whole, whole lot. But back in the day, it really was a thing. Like, the guys that ran great in the daylight would usually struggle when it got dark, and the guys that struggle in the daylight shine, suddenly sun went down, and that was like a lot of. I remember it being like a check and asked Jimmy Johnson thing, like, at the coke 600, like, he would start. They set that car up for nighttime racing. Then when it went at the end, when it mattered, I remember vividly back in the day how they would. They would shine when the sun went down tracks like that. So, yeah, it's not as big a deal now, but it was enough of a deal for them to talk about and keep everyone interested in the tire wear situation. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah, no doubt. It was. It was just weird to see so many guys falling out with tires, and it wasn't. It was like that good balance that we were hoping for with Bristol in the spring next year. Cause we kept on saying, like, maybe this was a little bit on the extreme side of tire wear. Like, maybe we don't need them wearing out in 40 laps, but could we get them to where they were at, like 80 to 100? So you're managing a bit of a longer run. I feel like it's exactly what we got here. You had guys that could manage those tires and make them last for a while, and then you have some guys that are just driving their ass off and end up blowing rights at some point in the middle of the run and about like 40 to 60 laps, depending. And then you had guys like Blaney and Byron and Larson was able to do this pretty good bit, running really long and gaining a lot of track position and still having tires on by the end. [00:23:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that. [00:23:06] Speaker A: It was. It was fun to see that. It was a great balance. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Still comes down to the driver knowing that he has not run the wheels off the car, which is great. Makes for great racing where you're not running every single lap, you know, all out. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Yep, exactly like what Alan Gustafson was telling Chase Elliott yesterday. Just like, take care of me on the beginning, and I'll take care of you on the end. [00:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it just makes for better racing all the way around when they can, when you have. When you have the comers and goers and the guys that go too hard and the guys that know what they're saving and, you know, all that good stuff. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah. So I just barn burner all the way from beginning to end. And I mean, the Jeff Gluck pole. Always a great place to look. 92%. Yes. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. [00:23:56] Speaker A: That's a short with 92%, man. [00:24:00] Speaker B: I did see a post, though. I can't remember if Alex Bowman said this. Alex Bowman did say this at some point, but basically, all it took to. To build a good short track is have a short track that races like a mile and a half, and you'll have a good race. And he's right. He's right away. I mean, he is. He is right in a way, so. [00:24:27] Speaker A: You know, spoken like a guy who's been struggling all year and just suddenly got himself a top ten on one. [00:24:32] Speaker B: So, you know, who has. He know who has a lot of top tens this year, though? Alex Bowman. [00:24:38] Speaker A: He does. He quietly has a bunch of top. [00:24:41] Speaker B: He has like, ten top tens, I think. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Wild to think for somebody sitting 12th on the point standings. I mean, that's. That's about where you'd expect him to be running. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:52] Speaker A: He's wildly putting together a good year. You know what's also wild? Chase Elliott's now your regular season points leader. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah, saw that. [00:25:01] Speaker A: And he's done that super quietly, too. I mean, he's just been running up front, getting stage points every week. He's never, he's not leading a ton of laps, so I don't feel like you hear his name as much, but he's there. Every single week, he's there. Got an eight point lead over Larson. [00:25:15] Speaker B: It's great. It is so good that he's running that way. But one thing that I hate is, is it just doesn't matter. And I hate that for him. But it's like, if this was. If this was 1999, his points lead would be huge because he's so consistent, and that's what it was all about back in the day. And then now what does it matter that he's consistent and running well and up there every single week has the most top fives. I think he has the most top tens. It's like, well, good for you, but that doesn't mean anything in the championship hunt. [00:25:56] Speaker A: And yes and no. I would make the argument. I would make an argument that that puts you as a pretty good favorite to reach the round of eight or the final four. And, I mean, if you're running in the top five top ten spots, I think that gains that confidence that we're here. We can win any week. So you're walking into every single week saying, I got a great damn car, and I could win. Winning that regular season points, championship or even getting second and third because there are small point prizes for getting those. That puts you into a great position. As soon as you enter that post season, you got the extra benefit of playoff points you've been accruing all year and potentially a regular season championship worth a good few points. Plus running up there in those top spots. You're getting great stage points throughout the, throughout the playoffs, all the way up through every single round. And we've seen Matt Craft and granted, this is in the truck series, we've seen Matt Crafton win this playoff format without actually winning a single race in the season. [00:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think you're going to do that. [00:27:02] Speaker A: You're not going to have that in cup. You're still going to have to get a win in the postseason. Don't get me wrong, I ain't saying that. But it shows you that consistency in terms of finishing in the top five every week, like if you're able to run up front every single week consistently will get you a long way down the road. It's not going to do everything, but it will get you a lot further than inconsistent paths with a couple wins scattered in there, here and there. [00:27:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess it's like seeing William Byron yesterday on the post race, uh, his interview. It's like, well, it's kind of what we were talking about last week. Like Chris or Byron comes out, boom, gonna win three races in the first like eight races or whatever it was seven races and then he just goes away. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Byron getting three wins early in the. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Season, he just goes away. And it's been that way for like two years now and then that's like the first time he's been back up in relevant in. And it feels like a long time to me. I don't know what Willie, Willie B. Stats are, but it just like, he just goes away in the summertime. He is not a summertime driver. I don't know what it is, but. [00:28:14] Speaker A: He, he goes away three wins and six top fives in 17 races this year with one stage win. [00:28:21] Speaker B: And I feel like five of those top fives all came at the beginning of the year. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And obviously three of them were the wins that he got earlier. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, totally. [00:28:31] Speaker A: It is funny, but he, I mean, shoot, he. I thought for a second he was going to get the lead back from Laney. I think it was about twelve to go. Ten and twelve to go. He was, he was catching him a good little bit. [00:28:41] Speaker B: He did. But then it went right back. As soon as they brought it up on the broadcast. It went right back down, like a 10th the next lap. Because they even talked about broadcast. Blaney. Blaney had such a good car. As soon as he saw him coming out or when I came, he's around a lap car or whatever, it just went right back. Cause it was like, 610. Yeah, they brought it up because he had knocked it down, and then, boom, went right back to seven tenths, and I was like, well, yeah, yeah, they fluffed it up more than I think it really was. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah. They even said in the middle of it. They're like, the good thing for Blaney is that it doesn't matter where he catches these lap cars. He can make a pass on the inside or the outside. But it seems like Byron needed that outside lane to be working for him. Cause if he got down to the bottom, it took him an extra couple corners to finish a pass on the inside, even for a slow lap car. [00:29:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Where Blaine, he could go inside or outside, sometimes take it three wide to get around a couple of guys, and he can usually do it in a set of corners. [00:29:34] Speaker B: Yeah. So Blaine just had one of the best cars. If Larson didn't get wrecked, I think it was going to be a hell of a battle for the race win. But when Larson got ready, I thought I was like, this is Blaney's race to blues. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it was Larson's race to lose, but until. Until he put three wide there. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And he lost it. [00:29:56] Speaker A: Yeah. So that. That was. I even texted y'all that after. I was like, Blaney was the second fastest car out there, man. But doesn't matter when the first, when the fastest car ain't. It doesn't finish the race. That'll pretty much. [00:30:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Seal the deal for you. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, I wanted to bring up to this Kyle Busch situation, Gateway Sonoma. And this weekend, Kyle Busch has had top ten speed well into the top ten speed running. Great. And something has happened. Yep. And he is like. He gained three points yesterday. Yeah. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Three point. The guy that's sitting underneath the cut. [00:30:40] Speaker B: Line right now, three points. He gained, not gain. I mean, he, like. He got three points yesterday for showing up to Iowa. That's. I don't mean he gained three points on anyone. He lost points, obviously. I mean, he. He got awarded three points for showing up. Even, like, Larson. Larson having a. The ending of the race being bad. Larson still got 22. 22 points. [00:31:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:04] Speaker B: Which is semi one of those deals. Like, I think Denny Hamlin talks about it a lot. He's like, if you can make it to the third stage and you ran good and you got stage points and won a stage, whatever. Yeah, that can make a. A bad day not feel so bad. So when they put the points up at the end of the day and I saw Larson getting 22, it's like, yeah, that's. That's a good day. That's not a three. [00:31:28] Speaker A: To put it in, put it in perspective. The guys that had around the same number of points that he did ran 14th, 15th, 16th. So Larson basically had a 15th place car. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Yes, yes. [00:31:39] Speaker A: So as much as it sucks to miss out on the final points payoff, he at least accrued enough stage points and did well enough in the stages where he basically finished in 14. [00:31:50] Speaker B: Yes. That's exactly what I mean by that. And then you have. I just. The Kyle Busch man, he is so. I think he is so over all of this. I sent you the video on, on. He remembers on TikTok or Twitter, but they're asking him. He's like. He literally says an interview. He's like, if Hendrik Motorsports called, I would go. If Joe Gibbs called, I would go. He is so. He seems so over this eight car in the situation. I mean, it's. It's just like, from the comments he made during the stenhouse situation, like, I suck and all this to that. [00:32:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:31] Speaker B: And then having this speed, he's not contending for race wins, but he did. He does have. He did have it. Gateway, Sonoma. And this weekend, top ten speed to get taken out where they're just. I mean, in the point situation, they cannot afford those days, even though they're happening. But he just seems. He is so over the eight car and RCR. Like, it is not even funny. Kyle Busch is not good at hiding stuff. And he just says, like I said, if you haven't seen that video, I sent it to you on a text where he was like, if you did called, I would call. I would answer and go. And if Gibbs called, I would answer and go. [00:33:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I just. It makes me wonder what's going on at that shop. I mean, it just seems like he's the only one there. It's hard to even say that even he gives a crap anymore, but he seems like he's the only one there who is outside of the pit crew. You know, the pit crew is probably working their ass off to try to do everything they can, but it's like, what is going on from the top down that is creating this situation for him? But you can just see everything you need to see in the fact that we still have Austin Dillon running that three car, underperforming, not doing anything, but. [00:33:46] Speaker B: He stays in it 36th. [00:33:48] Speaker A: Granted, I'll give him a little bit of a pass. He was the first one out on the track in group a for qualifying, so he kind of got. [00:33:55] Speaker B: He. [00:33:56] Speaker A: There wasn't much he was going to be able to do with that total, especially having watched that qualifying session. But that does. The only reason you start first in a qualifying session is performing poorly up until that moment. So he kind of sets himself up for that situation. And you got the. And you got him just running like crap every single week, not being able to do anything. And. And they're keeping him in the car, which is. It just tells you everything you need to know about the organization, that apparently winning doesn't matter as much as having Austin Dillon run this car. We have Kyle Busch in here. Kyle Busch was supposed to come in and solve all the problems RCR has ever had. And even Kyle Busch is just ready to jump ship. He's done with it. [00:34:41] Speaker B: Did you happen to hear radioactive last week at Sonoma? [00:34:45] Speaker A: No, I did not. [00:34:47] Speaker B: We might have to find this and clip it and post it on the socials for people that didn't, because I can't remember exactly, exactly what Austin Dillon says. But before the race, um, RC gets on the radio, and he's like, all right, boys, let's have a good day. How about this, buddy? Let's go get a win. And it's right at the beginning of the clip, so if you're going to find its own, maybe you can find. [00:35:12] Speaker A: Not looking up the clip. I'm looking at a different thing. [00:35:15] Speaker B: But Austin Dillon literally comes back with, like. It almost sounds like he's like, ha. Let's. Let's have a good. Let's just have a good day or something like this. Like, he has no confidence. He. He knows he is not going to go out, especially at a road course, and win. You know what I'm saying? Like, even though Richard shoulders is like, let's go get us some win today, does rich, is Richard Childers delusional, or is he really think that he can win in that car or what? I don't know, but it's almost like, sarcastically, Dylan's like, yeah, let's just go have a good day. [00:35:52] Speaker A: And you want me to hit you with something even better to build off of what you just told me? [00:35:57] Speaker B: Always. [00:35:58] Speaker A: Austin Dillon is a realist, and he understands that getting a win in this car is probably not in the cards for him. But keep in mind that for the playoffs in NASCAR, even if Austin Dillon was able to go out and win a race tomorrow, gets a fluke Koch 600 win like that one year fuel mileage, doing something, whatever it takes for him to get a win. Austin Dylan is still with a win, not qualified to be in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs because he is 32nd in points right now. So not only does Austin dirty, you have to be in the top 30. [00:36:36] Speaker B: Do you really? It is to even you how bad you got to be to be 32nd in points. [00:36:42] Speaker A: Yes. [00:36:42] Speaker B: And we're talking with, like, Harrison Burton and Zane Smith. [00:36:47] Speaker A: We're talking 30th place, Justin Haley driving the 51 no name machine that never. [00:36:53] Speaker B: Has finished 13th yesterday. [00:36:56] Speaker A: 13Th, dude, and ran top ten all day. Corey LaJoy in 29th, John Hunter Nevichek in 28th, 27th, Ryan Priest, 43 and 26. We're talking guys that are struggling for teams that are still building and trying to figure themselves out right now. These guys are beating Austin Dillon, driving the most iconic number in NASCAR, and he's. They're eligible for the playoffs. And that iconic number is not eligible for the playoffs right now. Justin Haley is 180 points out of the playoff cutoff line as it stands in 30th. So who knows where Austin Dillon is, but he's ranked in 32nd right now, 300 with 229 points. So it looks like he's maybe like six points lower than Justin Haley. So Justin Haley is barely but still outrunning him as of this year. [00:37:54] Speaker B: You nailed it. You said it just a few minutes ago. The winning. There is no winning culture at RCR anymore. It's okay to be mediocre. [00:38:05] Speaker A: Yeah, but they're going to hire one of the best drivers to ever do it, to go run mediocre. He's not going to stay there. [00:38:13] Speaker B: No, dude, Kyle Busch still has years left in the tank. And he said in that interview he is under contract through next year, which means he will 99.9% chance he is in that eight car next year. I'd be willing to bet after next year. He is not in that eight car. And he is somewhere if he doesn't, if this is my hot take, bold prediction of the day after 2025, Kyle Busch is either done with cup racing or he, if he doesn't have an opportunity to go to a race winning team, he's gonna be a race winning team, or he's done. He is not. Tells whoever, run like this, or he. [00:38:51] Speaker A: Goes to Joe Gibbs or Hendrick and says, please, God, buy out my contract so I can get out of here. I just do not want to be here anymore. Pull a Tyler Etic. Go announce it. Go back now. Say you're going somewhere in 2026 and hope that RC gets so pissed off that he can get you out of there by the end of next year. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Turn the. Turn the 19 into the 18 and bring him back. [00:39:15] Speaker A: Dude, I'd be so down for that. [00:39:16] Speaker B: I'm just saying, man, it's just. He's not going to stay. He is not going to stay there. There's no way he is going to stay in that car. [00:39:26] Speaker A: He's so beyond over it. [00:39:29] Speaker B: Same thing with Tyler Reddick. Tyler Reddick goes out there and wins races and then gets the opportunity. Boom, he's out the door, baby. He is gone. [00:39:36] Speaker A: I think Tyler Reddick saw something coming. I think he knew something was happening there that just wasn't going to be good. [00:39:43] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if you got the opportunity to run it, Richard shoulders, or go to one of the newest up and coming teams, then work for Michael. [00:39:50] Speaker A: Jordan, work for Denny Hamlin. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Yeah, sounds like a good deal. [00:39:55] Speaker A: I'd have done it, too. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Bring that up. That was on. That was way to go to posting on Twitter about. About Kyle Busch the last couple weeks. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:09] Speaker B: And, man, it's just gonna make him drive unnecessarily. Even harder than he has to drive. And he's gonna keep putting himself in bad situations. [00:40:20] Speaker A: Mm hmm. [00:40:20] Speaker B: Because that's what. [00:40:21] Speaker A: Yes. [00:40:21] Speaker B: Overdriving gets you is a bad situation. [00:40:25] Speaker A: No freaking doubt. I completely agree. [00:40:28] Speaker B: And we brought up on this podcast, was it last week before last, the whole RCR inspire conversation. [00:40:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a. [00:40:35] Speaker B: This is going to be an ongoing thing to keep an eye on for the rest of this year and potentially next year of what is going on. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Yeah, completely agree. There's just so much, so many things up in the air. There's so many opportunities out there right now that I'd almost be pissed if I was Kyle Busch and I was locked into a contract for next year because there's opportunity. [00:40:58] Speaker B: Exactly. I agree with you. [00:40:59] Speaker A: 500 different spots right now. What opportunities are going to be available? Because every one of those more than likely will be a multi year deal that gets signed up for. So all those rides that are opening up right now are going to be locked in by the time that you're available. [00:41:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:14] Speaker A: And there's not a whole lot of situations I can think of where anybody's going to retire in the next couple of years out of a really competitive race car. [00:41:22] Speaker B: The. The year to be a free agent is now. I mean, all the stuff that's moving around and opportunities and such. Like in true x, retiring and didn't see Chase Briscoe being the number one guy for that car. But I take what Bob Packer says and believe it. Like, he's the top candidate for that. [00:41:44] Speaker A: 19 ride next year, which is all about Chase Briscoe. I have a feeling it's going to be hard to get him to split with Ford. [00:41:52] Speaker B: It's just like Bob Parker said, someone brought that up and he said, when JGR calls, you listen. [00:41:57] Speaker A: Oh, without a doubt. I mean, if JGR is calling, you got to take the phone call. [00:42:00] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's the thing. And Toyota, Toyota has. Toyota is. Is just Dave Wilson. I saw a post. I saw a post that he made. So if anybody saw, obviously Denny Hamlin after the true ex retirement, says if he. I'll have a Daytona 500 car ready for him when he, when he's. If he says go, we'll have it ready. Daytona 500. Dave Wilson retweets the, the interview that, that Denny's on, saying this and says something along the lines of, like, basically put Toyota's name on the door, like, we're ready. [00:42:40] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:42:41] Speaker B: Like fired up. We're ready to go TRD and engine and horsepower and this, that and other. And basically saying, like, we'll fund it. You don't even have to have bass pro or, or whatever. Like, we'll. We will find this situation. [00:42:54] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:42:55] Speaker B: And it's just like that, that guy. I like that guy. Remember we talked about on here? Remember we talked about on here when he said he's like, you will build a thousand horsepower engine tomorrow. I don't care. I want to see good race and all this. And we've talked about him before on this podcast, but I like the guy a lot. Like, I love the stuff he says on Twitter. He is so, so invested and involved in just making Toyota be badass and horsepower and all the things. Like, he seems like the. He seems like the common man. You know what I mean? Like, he doesn't come across as the big CEO of Toyota Racing. He comes across as like a man. [00:43:36] Speaker A: Of the people, which is he wants the same things that we want. [00:43:39] Speaker B: He wants. [00:43:40] Speaker A: He wants good races. [00:43:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And I just, I love that. And I'm a big fan of that guy, and I just want to throw that out there. That was another, that was a really cool. Another little tidbit that he put out there that I really enjoyed. [00:43:52] Speaker A: Heck yeah. I'm all about it, man. Speaking of Toyota's, I was surprised how much they struggled last night. It almost seemed like Toyota never really could quite figure anything out. Even Christopher Bell had a lot of complaints about his car and finished in fourth. [00:44:04] Speaker B: I wanted to bring up yesterday just off the truck, straight up. Watching a race has to be without a wreck involved, without Denny Hamlin, like wrecking and then running back has to be one of the most straight up heads up. Worst I've ever seen Denny Hamlin run, possibly my whole life. [00:44:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it was just bad. He said, can't turn it. Nothing, dude. [00:44:28] Speaker B: He came out of the gate and I think he was running about 11th, and they popped on there and they start talking about him. And in my mind, when they said he was dropping, I was like, oh, in my. The first thing it popped up was like 20th. I don't know why that was. Just when they're talking about him, I was like, oh, he's probably about 20th. They said 34th, and Larson was like two tenths off of his ass about the lap. And I was like, oh, my God. Yeah, he ran like Austin Dillon yesterday. [00:44:54] Speaker A: He did. Cause, I mean, you had Christopher Bell in fourth. The next highest Toyota is Martin Truex in 15. [00:45:00] Speaker B: Yeah, Truex had a bad day, too. Yeah, he had. [00:45:03] Speaker A: Then it's Wallace, then it's Reddick, and then you get the other JGR guys, Denny, Ty Gibbs, and then John Hunter down there and Eric Jones down there in 30 seconds. But I mean, all these guys are finishing like 22nd. Worse. [00:45:17] Speaker B: They was just so weird. [00:45:19] Speaker A: I don't get it. I don't. I guess it's a short track thing. They must just struggle on these things. [00:45:23] Speaker B: But I thought they were the short track guys. They were the Ford track cars. [00:45:30] Speaker A: Ford was showing up on short tracks for sure. I feel like Chevy was the one on the back foot then. But now it seems like Chevy's figured out whatever they were missing and Toyota's just got nothing for them. It's just Fords. And Chevy's up there in the top ten. Mostly Chevys, but, yeah, just a struggle, man. Just a wild struggle all day long. [00:45:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it was weird. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Really bad day to be a yoder. [00:45:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:53] Speaker A: Now it was. It was strange. But, man, it just seems like Ford and Chevy's just got something figured out on these low downforce tracks that Toyota just can't compete with, which is it. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Just happened literally, like overnight. And it seems like. Cause at the beginning of this year, Toyota was your short. We talked about it on this podcast. It's short tracks. Like betting all Toyotas. [00:46:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Now you just can't do that. But that's the thing is, as the year goes on, things develop. People find stuff. People put some extra work in here. Is it an engine thing? Is it an arrow thing? There's always something to be found. So who knows? Maybe they just lost something. [00:46:30] Speaker B: I don't know exactly what Ford did with the engine and what they found and all the stuff, but it was something with the engine, something with horsepower. And it is helping them tremendously. [00:46:38] Speaker A: Oh, dude. It is a complete game changer. There are competitors every single week. Now. [00:46:43] Speaker B: Also, I want to throw this out here now that it's every week thing. As of this week, there was a couple Fords that started putting the Ford logo back on the nose a few a couple weeks ago. And now every Ford has the Ford logo on the nose. Now we can look at the front of a Ford when it just looks like a black test car on the grill with that. The body looks awesome, but you cannot even tell that it's a Mustang logo. I brought that up on here early in the season. Post about a bunch on Twitter. Finally, as of this past weekend, they got a blue oval on the hood of the car. [00:47:17] Speaker A: It cracks me up how much that fires you up. And it's just been something I have not even once noticed. [00:47:23] Speaker B: I just. It just bug. It has bugged the shit out of me since I saw the car the first time I saw it earlier this year. [00:47:31] Speaker A: It's so. You are so much more about the cosmetics of the car than I am. I mean, I love the paint jobs as a whole, but I'm not looking at all the tiny, tiny little details like that. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Even they take pictures. You got to zoom in to see the Mustang logo. Like the horse, the Mustang on the nose. [00:47:47] Speaker A: It just cracks me up, man. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Put that out there because apparently I'm not the only one that thought it. [00:47:53] Speaker A: I know there's a bunch of folks out there that are so about those little details. And I'm just like, man, I. As long as the race is good, I could just. Doesn't bother me. [00:48:01] Speaker B: I mean, it doesn't make. But I'm glad they're there. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Just a big Ford fan. Just felt like he wasn't getting enough recognition, pretty much. Oh, golly, man. Couple other surprises was Ricky Stenhouse and Josh Barry. They were running. They were running like hell yesterday. It was wild Stenhouse, you can tell he just had some confidence coming back to the track. [00:48:28] Speaker B: One of his best tracks. He was like Busher back in the day at that track. That's someone who struggled that I talked highly on last week that did not have a good run. [00:48:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like him and Brad. Well, Brad was better just whenever. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Or 10th. [00:48:42] Speaker A: Yeah, 10th. And it was only because he was making some bold strategy calls to get up there to the front sometimes. Yeah. But, yeah, I agree. Bush was struggling. [00:48:50] Speaker B: Yeah. I laid a fat seem like they just missed putting Busher, Buscher, all the confidence I had in Busher. [00:48:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I think they just missed their setup or something. It just seemed like they never really quite had it figured out. [00:49:01] Speaker B: I should have known. I should have. I should have known about Ricky winning, being so good at Iowa. He's the one that won that race we talked about. But like I should. I should have brought that up last week. Like, he ran great at Iowa as well. [00:49:16] Speaker A: Yeah, he was my bet of the week. I put dollar two down that Stenhouse would finish in the top ten. The only thing I wish I did was put him first. But I mean, still, that $2 turned into $24, so it helped pay for part of my diecast. [00:49:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't put the one bet LA this past weekend. It was Larson because I was so confident that he was going to win. [00:49:37] Speaker A: And it was him to win, too. [00:49:39] Speaker B: Looking great until it wasn't. [00:49:41] Speaker A: I never bet on Larson to win because the lines usually super terrible. But when I saw him at 550 to win, I was like, I'll take that. And then I put, I put 80 or $0.90 down on Blaney to win the race and ended up getting $8 out of that, too. So got, got two. Got two solid winners. I'm up for the week. I think I doubled my money. Had a few other bets that missed. I had a Michael McDowell finishing in the top ten. He was doing that for most of the race and then laid a fat, laid a fat flat tire on the apron. [00:50:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that'll happen. [00:50:14] Speaker A: Yeah. But good week for the bets on my end, but obviously come around next week. Talk to me then. We'll see how that story changes. Yeah, because we're going to New Hampshire suit. I'm just going to Christopher Bell to win. I'll probably, you know what? I'll probably put a bet down that Eric Amarola is going to win that race, too. [00:50:37] Speaker B: I want to. We haven't even spoke about this. We have not even spoke about this outside the podcast. But did you know that Eric Jones, Eric Amarola's contract got like terminated and it went away for Joe Gibbs? [00:50:52] Speaker A: No, I did not know that. I haven't noticed him being in the car recently, but no. Yeah. [00:50:56] Speaker B: Every race that Ty Gibbs has ran in that car was supposed to be about air Camaro, the race. [00:51:03] Speaker A: Really? Do you know why? [00:51:05] Speaker B: No, I don't. I saw some stupid fucking rumor that him and Bubba Wallace got into a fight, but I don't believe that. [00:51:13] Speaker A: I mean, what would they have to fight about? [00:51:15] Speaker B: I don't know, but I don't believe. I don't believe that that's the reason why. But I saw that, and a couple weeks ago when it got brought, it's been very pushed under the rug. Even Ty Gibbs won't talk much about it. They're interviewing him and all this stuff, and he didn't know he was going to run the race until the Friday before the Saturday race, and they're asking questions about it, and he was like, I don't know. You know, didn't know what to say. Just like, I didn't know I was doing this until yesterday. [00:51:45] Speaker A: Eric Amarola and Joe Gibbs racing, man. Just. Do they just. You never know. You never know what's going to happen with those two. I was like, super cold relationship that happened and kind of not really sure. [00:51:58] Speaker B: Thing is, I've been meaning to bring that up to you. Like, not even on the podcast, but I've been meaning to bring that up for, like, a month now. [00:52:04] Speaker A: Interesting. And it's lovely. I got a little bit of drama for no reason. [00:52:09] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm. I'm wanting to know, like, everybody on Twitter is also wanting to know, like, there's post, like, what in the world could have happened here? [00:52:19] Speaker A: Just decided he just didn't really know. [00:52:21] Speaker B: Longer there. And he is not racing for Joe Gibbs in the Xfinity series. He's not doing the 20. He was supposed to do, like, 25 races this year, which is, like, what, all of them? But, like, eight or seven, something like that. Like, yeah, he was supposed to be in that car. [00:52:37] Speaker A: That's wild. No, I didn't even know. I didn't even. I. If you would ask me something about Eric Emerald. But, like, yeah, man, I haven't seen him in a while. [00:52:46] Speaker B: I knew you had not noticed that he hadn't been around. [00:52:48] Speaker A: I hadn't noticed. But as soon as you said his name, I was like, you know, I haven't heard about him in a minute. I thought he must be running a lot more, but, yeah, I mean, we're always working on Xfinity series race days, so I never hardly get to watch him. We were at a farmer's market Saturday. While that was going on, just to went around doing a bunch of stuff around the house. [00:53:06] Speaker B: So I watched the whole entire race. Whole entire truck cup race. Yeah. For the first time probably all year that I got to watch a whole bush race. [00:53:16] Speaker A: I know. A whole weekend of racing is just something we don't get to see very often anymore. We're gonna get in basically another one this week. I don't know how many. What's, what's on the slate for this week. Xfinity series and cup series. I always forget on these one offs which, which series goes and which doesn't. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:38] Speaker B: I don't know. What do you. I mean, bells, I would bail is going to be the pig. But it's also like these flat, short track top tracks were the ones they dominated. And like you, we just said there did not look great. You know, it's like. [00:53:51] Speaker A: Well, they didn't look great here, which is kind of surprising because it's very similar to Richmond. I mean, they tell you on the, on the broadcast that Iowa was designed by Kenny Wallace, who loved Richmond. [00:54:02] Speaker B: Rusty Wallace. [00:54:03] Speaker A: So. [00:54:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:54:03] Speaker A: Rusty Wallace. Sorry. So going to New Hampshire being a larger, flatter track. Yeah. I'm going to have to say that Christopher Bell is going to be the favorite, and I think that stays. I think that sticks. I don't think that goes away true for me. I think he's going to run really good. Will he run good, though? I feel like he's kind of struggled this year. [00:54:27] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:54:27] Speaker A: That's even on tracks he's supposed to be good at. [00:54:29] Speaker B: Denny Hamlin's run great here. Truex is running great here. Bales run great here, which are all three Toyota's Joe Gibbs guys. Yeah. Bush was in a Joe Gibbs car. He ran great here. He's got him a few lobsters hanging on the wall. It's just, I would not put money on Kyle Busch, though. Just sir. [00:54:49] Speaker A: Yeah, he's too. He's way too cold. He's way too cold. [00:54:54] Speaker B: Don't put Kyle Busch in your top five. [00:54:57] Speaker A: Yeah, no doubt. Um, but, yeah, I don't. [00:55:00] Speaker B: I don't really know. I just. It's kind of. I don't know. I don't know. New Hampshire is a. Just a. New Hampshire is one of those races that's either, like, awesome and there's a bump and run and beating and banging, or it's just the duddest of all duds. There's just no dutt of all duds. There's no in between for New Hampshire. It's like, it's always been that way. [00:55:27] Speaker A: So since February of 2021, this is recent races at New Hampshire listed an order of average finish. I'm going to eliminate anybody that's on here that is no longer running because Matt Damnedetto and Kevin Harvick both pop up on this list. So your top driver, who do you think the top current driver in NASCAR, best average finish. Who do you think it is? [00:55:55] Speaker B: Is it Bell? [00:55:56] Speaker A: No, it is not Bell. Bell is not even in the top five of the stat best average finish. And the average finish is fifth. If you had to make a guess outside of Christopher Bell, if you had to find one person who you think. I don't think it's going to be who you think it is. [00:56:13] Speaker B: Trying to think. I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to take too long. Brad Keselowski, Brad K. He has some wins. Yeah. He's got some wins there. [00:56:29] Speaker A: And this is only since February of 2021. Okay, so this is basically next gen plus the year before. [00:56:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:37] Speaker A: So out of the three races that we've had, Brad has an average finish of fifth with two top fives. And the last race was a top ten. [00:56:45] Speaker B: Sounds like money at big bad Brad. Put some money on big bad Brad. [00:56:49] Speaker A: Yeah, big bad Brad. And Ford's been running really good lately, so he might snake in the grass right there. Then you got Martin Truex, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Joey Logano, Christopher Bell, Chase Elliot and bubble Wallace. So. And those average finishes, it tells you a lot, especially with only a three race sample size. To have a good, average finish, you're going to have to one finish all the laps and to finish all the laps in a good spot. It just surprises me that Christopher Bell isn't higher up in that. [00:57:22] Speaker B: Do you know? You know why, though? Because he had. [00:57:24] Speaker A: Because he won race. [00:57:26] Speaker B: There's one race there where he had something happen and finished like 30 something. Had a really bad race, one bad race. Because there's something about, like every. He has more wins than, like, he's one more races there in the trucks. I don't know, something crazy. Like, every race is top five, but like two. [00:57:48] Speaker A: And he's got one win and two top fives. So you're right. Christopher Bell did have one race that had something wild happen to him. [00:57:55] Speaker B: Yeah. That's why finishing, and I think he was, like, leading when that happened. [00:57:59] Speaker A: And the only other driver that I named is Martin Truex that has a win at this track. Everybody else is the only other win that's on this list out of the three races that they went to was Eric Amarillo. So is Amarillo. Christopher Bell and Martin Truex was your three, your winners. So, yes. I mean, Christopher Bell still is your favorite there by leaps and bounds, but I think Brad is a phenomenal, phenomenal, great pick for a top five. Maybe if you're feeling froggy, go for that win. But I feel like his average for a top five or his odds for a top five are going to be high enough to where it's more worth it to put money there than hope for him to get that win. And put your money more on Christopher Bell to wait that win. [00:58:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I agree with you. [00:58:42] Speaker A: So there's Brandy. There's your picks for the weekend. Sorry it took us 58 minutes to get them to you, but we'll get there. But, yeah. So it's one off race, new Hampshire. I love that we have the weekend off so we can kind of watch it. This is a much more of a technical race. I feel like this is one where the yellows don't usually come out a ton. I feel like it's a little bit more of a strategy game, long run kind of thing. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, New Hampshire is definitely low on my list of favorite races. [00:59:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:12] Speaker B: It just is what it is. [00:59:13] Speaker A: I'm smart of it. That's the reason they only get one race a year. [00:59:16] Speaker B: Yeah. New Hampshire is just New Hampshire. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:20] Speaker B: I was growing up when the, when the chase first started, New Hampshire was always the first race of playoffs. [00:59:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Always gave him something to brag about. [00:59:31] Speaker B: What I remember about New Hampshire, I remember Michael Watrup and Robbie Gordon getting into it at New Hampshire. The awesome helmet throw that hit Walter right at the crossbar on the winning net. Perfect bullseye throw. That's up there. Yeah, I don't. I mean, it's just not. I love the trophy. The 24 pound lobster they got this year is humongous. [00:59:57] Speaker A: I love that. [00:59:58] Speaker B: That's cool. It's always funny to see the little, little drivers who are scared to touch the lobster. Christopher Bell is probably one of those. He's scared of snakes and everything else. We actually have a Caleb. Caleb's got a couple pictures. I got a couple pictures of Christopher Bell. When we do start to see Bell hate page, that's a lot of profile. Lot of contenders for a profile picture. [01:00:21] Speaker A: That's amazing. [01:00:24] Speaker B: Yeah, man. I don't have. I just. It's just New Hampshire. It's not like my, it's not my most favorite race of the year is all I got to say. [01:00:31] Speaker A: Well, let's put it this way. Anytime that we've not looked forward to a racetrack after the slog of April. Yeah, it's been great. So I have a feeling that you never know with this next gen car. Sometimes it pulls out a banger from what should have been a dud. [01:00:46] Speaker B: They go, we might see some cool stuff go down. [01:00:50] Speaker A: Yeah, we could. Um. Since we're already an hour in now, I feel like it's time to get to everyone's favorite portion of the day. [01:00:58] Speaker B: Hack of the week. [01:01:00] Speaker A: And I already know exactly who you're gonna say. [01:01:02] Speaker B: I bet you don't. [01:01:05] Speaker A: I guess I don't. [01:01:06] Speaker B: Then you're gonna think, I know exactly. Daniel Suarez. [01:01:08] Speaker A: Daniel Suarez. [01:01:08] Speaker B: That's who you thought I was gonna say? [01:01:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:01:12] Speaker B: Um. Daniel Suarez. Man, I don't even know how long Daniel Suarez is going to be in a cup car. He's kind of on the Austin. He runs better in Austin, Dylan. [01:01:20] Speaker A: But, man, he's got a win in Atlanta. [01:01:24] Speaker B: Larson. [01:01:24] Speaker A: That's what's keeping him in the wide. [01:01:26] Speaker B: But the 99 could not hold his line. I mean, it just is. [01:01:29] Speaker A: What's the. That's the part of it, though, that I was getting. That is, I feel like I was. You watch that? I was a great case study on how hard it is to turn a car to the left. In NASCAR, everybody always thinks, oh, it's just cars driving around in circles. It was. And I'm getting somewhere with this, I promise. Everybody always thinks it's just cars turning left in a circle. But if you put that car at a particular angle, it's going to turn that corner like a mother. It's going to be awesome. You're going to skate right through that corner. You come in there just a little bit too deep, angled a little bit too much towards the wall, and you've got to add so much extra wheel input, so much extra force into getting your car to rotate around the center, that you could watch it happen on the track. And I genuinely think that when Daniel Suarez entered that corner, he entered it in a little deeper than he necessarily needed to, not anticipating a three wide moment coming out of that. And in order to hold his spot, there was only so much that he could do to hold it when suddenly, he's got a car on his outside and he can't catch himself. Because as soon as he put it, as soon as Larson put it in that position, Suarez was screwed. He would have been fine at two wide, but once it was forced three wide, there was just no way. And I don't think Larson anticipated that? [01:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I just, I just wish he would have never forced it when he had a car that good. I was also even more pissed at Denny Hamlin for being two laps down and just knocking the shit out of Larson for no reason and then gets out of the car. And typical Denny. It's not my fault I got into the gas too soon. Yada, yada, yada, whatever. That pissed me off. But my hack of the week, and this is just one of the goofiest things I've ever seen in my life. So I just have to give it to hack of the week. Is host of our doing the same thing, Zane Smith hitting Corey Lajoy. I've never in my life seen. [01:03:32] Speaker A: It was so freaking funny. [01:03:34] Speaker B: It was the goofiest thing I've ever seen. I've never seen in my life. A three car team knockout, like, all hit each other to cause a wreck that wrecked their car. It's just hilarious. Like, goofiest thing I've ever seen in my life. [01:03:51] Speaker A: That was my hack of the week, too. We agree on a hack of the week this week because that was immediately what I was gonna pick. [01:03:57] Speaker B: That's fine. [01:03:57] Speaker A: Just as it was just the freaking three car pinball machine out there. Just. And the only people that they ever touched was each other. [01:04:05] Speaker B: Each other. Yeah. That is just like there was, that was the best part. The good, like I said, goofiest part. There was no one else involved in the wreck but the spire cars. [01:04:14] Speaker A: Yeah. And it just was, it was amazing. [01:04:17] Speaker B: Aspire, wreck, pimp, you know, ping pong. My favorite part two was, and the only reason I caught this was at, right. They showed a snippet of the replay before they, like, showed the replay. And I saw host of our only reason. I saw the colors of his car, and he was crooked when they showed it. But then they show, like, originally just a clip snippet of the replay is just Smith getting into Corey Lajoy. And as soon as they said it, I was like, oh, my God, please tell me that. Host of our hit, Smith into Corey La Joy. And they showed it next, and boom, that is what happened. I was like, wow, that couldn't be more perfect. [01:04:54] Speaker A: Incredible. Oh, damn. You got double hack of the week. That's a, that's a double hack right there. [01:05:01] Speaker B: Oh, it was just hilarious. [01:05:03] Speaker A: It was incredible. I just, I laughed when it happened. I'm still laughing now. What about a moment? [01:05:09] Speaker B: What about Carson, host of our outrunning Corey LaJoy 99% of the time? [01:05:14] Speaker A: Oh, I'm here for it. He's got a lot of talent. [01:05:17] Speaker B: It's. [01:05:18] Speaker A: He's got a lot of talent. I think Corey. [01:05:20] Speaker B: Corey. Joey talks like Tarzan, drives like Jane. [01:05:23] Speaker A: I don't know that I would say that as much as I would say that he got talked about like Tarzan. [01:05:28] Speaker B: It just cracks me up. I mean, I like Corey. I mean, I love my Corey. Joy. It's fine. It's just, I do. [01:05:34] Speaker A: But I think that, I think a really good Atlanta run to a year and a half ago was everything he needed to get his name out there. But the problem was now you're in the spotlight a lot more than you used to be and you've got really good teammates coming up behind you that are outrunning you. Now you've got to either back it up or you're going to get forgotten about as soon as a rookie starts out running you. When you have multiple years of experience in the cup series with a suddenly much more competitive car than you've ever had and a rookie teammate comes in and starts out running you immediately. [01:06:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:07] Speaker A: Right after you got the best shot in the arm to your pr campaign you've ever had. It's a bad spot to be in and he's just not doing what him in Atlanta just, and then all of a sudden everybody, he was, he was everybody's favorite at Talladega, everybody's favorite at Daytona July. I mean, it just suddenly, every time we were at a drafting track or every time we were at a track spires ever done anything good at, you just heard about Corey La Joyce so much more than you ever had before. [01:06:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:37] Speaker A: And all of it was based on a really good run. One time at one race and on it was a double edged sword. He both got all this new attention, but now he's got to go out there and back it up and he's not backing it up. So he's in an awkward spot. [01:06:53] Speaker B: Here is the biggest kick in the ass of a stat that I've not ever heard. But this, if I was Corey Lajoy, I would lose sleep about this stat at night time. Do you know how many top ten Corey Lajoy has in a non drafting track? [01:07:10] Speaker A: None. [01:07:11] Speaker B: Zero. [01:07:12] Speaker A: Not a one. Goose egg. [01:07:13] Speaker B: You know how many Carson host of our has? [01:07:16] Speaker A: I think two. [01:07:16] Speaker B: Now more than zero. You how many races Carson host of ours raced? Like 20. Nearly as many cup starts. [01:07:23] Speaker A: Yeah, one hand. There's a lot towards Carson Joseph, our talent. [01:07:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm here. [01:07:29] Speaker A: On the other hand, it tells you where Corey could be running it. Corey tells a lot about his talent. [01:07:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Dude, like, that's a tough pill to swallow there. I would be. That's tough. That's tough there. I mean, damn, he is. [01:07:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:45] Speaker B: Corey Joy has won me money. Good money, like, for bet for plus money wise, good money at plate tracks in Atlanta. Whatever. I have him there, and he has, like, multiple top fives and top tens and all that. That's great. But to have zero, I never would have guessed that until I saw it on paper from reliable people. I never. If you said just how many top tens of score of joy have not on plate tracks, I would have guessed a few. Just like, yeah, happen to get there a couple times at least. You know? A few times, whatever. It's zero, dog. [01:08:19] Speaker A: Just none. [01:08:20] Speaker B: Just goose egging it. And I'm like, wow, that is just how mind blowing I would be. I would just be. Even if you didn't have a teammate that was out running you, I would be. That's brutal. [01:08:33] Speaker A: That's a devastating stat. [01:08:34] Speaker B: That's a devastating stat. Like, I just would assume you just happen to be in the top ten at least once. Yeah, not even once. I would have guessed a few times. Like, not that he runs top ten every week, but I mean, come on. Like, I figured some attrition and some shit would happen where he'd be in a top. Just, you know, found his way in the top ten at some point, but zero is a hard pill to swallow. [01:08:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a tough one. [01:08:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:58] Speaker A: But, yeah, it tells you a lot for sure. So brutal. [01:09:01] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm glad. I'm glad we're on the same page about that. That's rough. [01:09:04] Speaker A: We'll see how much longer he has that ride. I mean, I'm not calling him to get out of it next year or anything, but, I mean, he's got. [01:09:11] Speaker B: I think he's in the same boat. He's under contract, like Kyle Busch season as well. [01:09:16] Speaker A: I mean, he's sitting on 29th of the point standings, don't get me wrong. [01:09:20] Speaker B: Not that anyone's knocking on Corey Lajoy's door or anything, but. [01:09:24] Speaker A: Yeah, but still, it's just an interesting spot to be in. So he's got, at least, I would think, another year to put it all together, but he better get on it. Yeah, he better get on it. [01:09:34] Speaker B: We're gonna need a playoff run, the same exact thing. He's got one more year to do something. And, like, if he doesn't do something within the rest of this year and next year, then it's going to be probably in hot water. If I had to guess. [01:09:48] Speaker A: And it's going to be a hard sell for any other team, unless it was a team that just needs someone with experience to go out there and races for. [01:09:54] Speaker B: He just hasn't. Yeah, that's like. Just keep saying that's a tough pill to swallow for the. [01:10:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:01] Speaker B: For that to be that way. [01:10:03] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:10:04] Speaker B: But it do be like that sometimes. [01:10:07] Speaker A: Well, for trading paint portion of the day, I've got to give it to Chastain again. Bush beer just knows how to show up with a good looking car. Yeah, the corn, the vibes. [01:10:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, the corn. [01:10:17] Speaker A: Also, the surprisingly casgrawless car looked freaking sweet as well. It was a 15 car. Ran to the back most of the day. I only saw it during qualifying, but it was a damn good looking race car. It was like white and yellow with a little bit of black stencil lining on it. It was pretty. [01:10:34] Speaker B: Yeah, bush beer does some cool stuff. Kevin Harvick, what did he do? What was the tweet about yesterday? Something happened. Something was sponsored or something. And Kevin Harvick post on Twitter, thank God I was sponsored by Beer. [01:10:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Beer sponsors are never wrong, man. [01:10:56] Speaker B: Also, the. Just to make you feel old, me specifically, yesterday was the first day since 2000, the 2001 Daytona 500, the first race that Harvick and his wife watched together on a Sunday. [01:11:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Not at the track. [01:11:14] Speaker B: Not. No. Just in general. [01:11:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:18] Speaker B: That's crazy. They were sitting around drinking wine yesterday, and he was talking about how brutal she was and all this stuff, and someone's like, India on the broadcast. He was like, she'd have to bleep every third word. And then she was like, I'm not that bad. She said, you should have seen all the stuff I said about you over the years. It was just a funny interaction. [01:11:37] Speaker A: That's amazing. [01:11:38] Speaker B: It's a funny interaction, but, man, hell, yeah. [01:11:40] Speaker A: Just like, she does. Wear the fire suit. [01:11:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:44] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:11:45] Speaker B: That was a good episode. [01:11:47] Speaker A: It was. It was. Absolutely. And hopefully we get a barn burner at Richmond, so that way we have something great to talk about next year. [01:11:55] Speaker B: You're. You're so focused on not going to New Hampshire, you're thinking about Richmond, dude. [01:12:00] Speaker A: And what another. What a track to want to go to. Out. [01:12:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:03] Speaker A: If there's a track that you want to go to Richmond or you want to leave so bad that you're wanting to go to Richmond, damn. [01:12:09] Speaker B: It's a bad place. [01:12:11] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Man. I gotta. I gotta take some. I gotta get more coffee in my system or something. I gotta wake up here anyways. Let's hope we get a good one next week at New Hampshire. Richmond, wherever the hell we're at. We're looking forward to it. Got another weekend off. Dawson called out sick and Travis decided that he didn't want to go there without a. [01:12:32] Speaker B: We do not have a weekend off. Actually, we. [01:12:34] Speaker A: Well, we have. We're still working on Friday. But Dawson. Dawson already called out for Saturday. Yep. Travis said, well, if I can't have my drum tech there, then I guess nobody's going. So Dawson cost us an entire day's worth of show pay. [01:12:48] Speaker B: That's it. [01:12:48] Speaker A: So everybody light him up in the comments. I can't believe he did that to us. [01:12:53] Speaker B: I was missing. I just could not go to Bay City, Michigan again. [01:12:56] Speaker A: Yeah, he could not go back again. He said, man, there's this. There's this great racetrack in New Hampshire. I can't wait to watch the xfinity cars go around it. I think Shane Van Gisbergen gets his first oval win. These are exact words that Dawson said, by the way. So he said, travis, I just can't do this. [01:13:15] Speaker B: I want to put something out there for the world. [01:13:17] Speaker A: Golly, what? A job application? [01:13:19] Speaker B: No, not yet, but, uh, okay. Not this. Okay, look, look, I'm not saying by no means. I am not saying Shane Van Gisbergen is going to win the cup, the. The Xfinity Series title. But a few months ago, I accidentally put him in for a race win at Coda and I put him to win the Xfinity Series title. My man sitting fourth in points right now with eleven stage point, eleven bonus points going in. I'm just saying, hey, no chance. It happens. But it makes me feel a lot better about it than it. [01:13:56] Speaker A: So you're telling me there's a chance. [01:13:57] Speaker B: Yeah. The two wins back to back really helped old boy out here. And it just gives me something. [01:14:04] Speaker A: You can't cash out. [01:14:05] Speaker B: I can't cash out. Maybe now, actually, I might can cash out. I wonder if that's an option now that he's like doing way better than he was before. [01:14:13] Speaker A: Kings has already spent the money that you gave them. I think they even looked at that and said, this dip shit put this bet in. We're not even. There's no way that bet cash is. They've already spent the money you were supposed to win on that bet. [01:14:24] Speaker B: That's so funny. I don't know if ever said that on here, but that's hilarious. But it just to say it does make me feel better that he's got eleven playoff points. And he's sitting fourth in points. I do want to say, when it happened, I thought. I thought about. I was like, damn, he's in the playoffs now. It's pretty cool. And then he went back to back, and I see his points, and I was like, okay. Like, he's got as many wins as Austin Hill. Like, yeah, give me a break. I need that motherfucker to start practicing at Phoenix right now. Start right now. [01:14:58] Speaker A: Practically dying, dude, you got me dying. That's incredible. Anyways, I don't even know where to go off of that one. [01:15:07] Speaker B: You can find me this week. [01:15:09] Speaker A: Yeah, you can find me everywhere. At Caleb Conrad, on Instagram, TikTok, and at the bar any other day of the week. [01:15:15] Speaker B: Dawson Edwards. Music across the board for me. [01:15:18] Speaker A: Heck, yeah. And don't forget to follow raised rowdy. Raised rowdy racing all over the place. Nikki T. Matt Burrell. Thanks for everything they do. And holy crap, look, I bought this. [01:15:30] Speaker B: Drunk in Panama City a couple years ago, and I just opened the drawer of my desk, and I forgot it. [01:15:34] Speaker A: Was sitting in there, and it's a whole crocodile head. [01:15:38] Speaker B: This guy needs an alligator head. This guy needs a name. [01:15:41] Speaker A: The alligator. [01:15:42] Speaker B: Yeah, man. [01:15:43] Speaker A: We're gonna bring him in on the show, so don't. This is a mouth. [01:15:46] Speaker B: This is the raised rowdy racing mascot right here. [01:15:49] Speaker A: Bam. Big gator fan. Weird. I don't think you're that big into Florida. Yeah, bucks. [01:15:57] Speaker B: So I was like, he's got an. [01:15:59] Speaker A: Alligator head up here. [01:16:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:16:01] Speaker A: We're gonna have to find something to do it. Ah, shoot. Anyway, that's amazing. We didn't see that one. [01:16:06] Speaker B: Y'all give us some names to this old boy. This is alligator here. [01:16:10] Speaker A: Anybody got any good alligator names? Well, anyways, on that wild ass note, thanks for listening, y'all. Y'all have a good rest of your week. Let's go, Blaney. [01:16:22] Speaker B: See y'all three turning lift around the track but you can hear me coming from a mile and a half away these good years can handle dirt don't need no curves with banks what I like in horses, I make up with four by four I'm in and out of traffic till I make it to your door checker record my rapper tampered on again I'm making my way to you, girl earn hard, fast.