S2 Episode 4: Atlanta, Best Track on the Schedule

[00:00:05] Speaker A: This is rage rowdy racing with Caleb Conrady and Dawson Edwards. [00:00:12] Speaker B: Good morning, beautiful people. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:00:17] Speaker B: What a God dang, what a race. [00:00:19] Speaker A: What a weekend on. [00:00:21] Speaker B: Golly bomb, dude. I've never been. This is the most excited for a. [00:00:26] Speaker C: Pod that we've done since we started doing this, like, a year ago. I'm just pumped up right now. [00:00:33] Speaker A: Oh, I am extremely excited to talk about it. It took me till way late last night to actually even watch the race. And the entire time I'm sitting there, even Allison couldn't get her eyes off of it. [00:00:44] Speaker B: So it was crazy, dude. [00:00:46] Speaker A: Absolutely insane race. Easily the best race overall that I've ever. [00:00:52] Speaker B: I, like I was saying, I just told Caleb before we got on here, I was like, I hope this looks as badass on tv and they're covering as good on tv as it looks here, because there was something going on. [00:01:02] Speaker C: From first to the back of the. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Pack, and there was even the wreck cars that came back in. Like, they ran a pack of probably. [00:01:09] Speaker C: 27, 28 cars, maybe even 30. [00:01:13] Speaker B: There was only a couple of stragglers behind. And it was like the three, the. [00:01:16] Speaker C: 45, even Bowman's car, he couldn't pass. [00:01:22] Speaker B: But he could stay in the draft. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Yeah. They all stayed together, and it was just incredible. Yeah. I mean, all around, just watching from. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Lap one to the end of the. [00:01:37] Speaker C: Race, there was never a moment where. [00:01:39] Speaker A: I felt like I could look away. [00:01:40] Speaker C: No. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Without missing something. And that's a great problem to have every single second counted in that race. [00:01:48] Speaker B: I saw this guy. He posted. His dad is like an old school NASCAR guy. Still watches racing, but his old school NASCAR guy and the kid, I said, the kid. [00:01:57] Speaker C: The guy is probably like our age or so. And he said him and his dad. [00:02:00] Speaker B: Watched the race, and he was like, when the race ended, he was like, damn, I need a nap because I didn't have time to take one during the race. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah. If you took a stage two snooze, I feel bad for you. Yeah, you missed. It's a bad idea. [00:02:11] Speaker C: It was, man. [00:02:13] Speaker B: I saw it last. Jeff Gluck's poll was at 95%. [00:02:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:17] Speaker A: When I voted, it was at 95%. I voted this morning. I don't know when you last looked. [00:02:21] Speaker B: At it, but I saw a screenshot. Somebody had it at 96, but when I did it, it was 95. [00:02:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I laughed at somebody. They responded to it. They responded to it right below it. They were the very first vote, and they were like, call the polls right here. Their first vote, they voted yes. It was 100% yes. [00:02:39] Speaker C: And it was cracking me up, but. [00:02:41] Speaker B: I'm going to be one of the. [00:02:42] Speaker C: Best he's ever had on his poll. [00:02:44] Speaker A: I don't even know what's the top percentage that's ever been hit before. [00:02:49] Speaker B: I'm not top percentage, but there's only like ten or eleven races that have. [00:02:53] Speaker C: Ever gotten above 90. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Dang. This one's still sitting at a solid 95. [00:02:58] Speaker B: He's already put out a poll of like, greatest finishes ever. [00:03:03] Speaker C: And when I saw it, three. [00:03:05] Speaker B: Darlington, which is the closest finish in NASCAR history with Ricky Craven and Kurt Bush, which everyone in the history of racing has seen that video. [00:03:14] Speaker C: That's the. [00:03:15] Speaker B: Have you ever. No, I've never. That's that call that. Everybody's seen that in Atlanta, 2024 were. [00:03:23] Speaker C: Tied at 40%, and then they had 2000. [00:03:26] Speaker B: It was eleven or twelve Talladega, when Jimmy Johnson, Clint Boyer, and I think Ryan Newman, they went three by three across the line. [00:03:34] Speaker C: Two rows of three that was on the poll. And then Watkins Glenn in 2012 was on there. [00:03:42] Speaker B: That's the Marcus Ambrose, Brad Kezelowski, all on the track, slipping and sliding, all that, which also was an incredible race. [00:03:50] Speaker C: He picked four great ones to put on there. [00:03:53] Speaker A: I mean, it's got to go down in the history books. And the best part about it is a lot of times you go back and watch those races where the finish was so exciting and it was incredible. A lot of the race in the middle of it is just a very stock NASCAR race. [00:04:10] Speaker C: There's nothing wrong with the race at all. It all leads up to it. [00:04:14] Speaker A: It's almost like you're going back just. [00:04:16] Speaker C: To watch those two guys race and. [00:04:18] Speaker A: How it ended up where they were. [00:04:21] Speaker C: Whereas this was just. [00:04:23] Speaker A: I didn't see Suarez even coming through to win that until the very end. I honestly thought Suarez was going to wreck himself out because he was making some bold moves. [00:04:31] Speaker C: Well, it was higher race long, and it finally comes around to the very end. And, I mean, you could have picked. [00:04:36] Speaker A: Any person in that field to have won that race. It would be exciting. I told Allison I'd go back and rewatch this whole race right now. [00:04:43] Speaker C: I want to watch the broadcast. [00:04:45] Speaker B: So for everyone, I was there and me, and, like, it's going to be cool to talk about because we have two still, because I didn't have service. I had a little bit of service to text, but I didn't have service to look at anything. And then I tried to look online last night as much as I could, but I was so exhausted, I pretty. [00:05:05] Speaker C: Much came home, took a shower and went to bed. But. [00:05:12] Speaker B: I haven't seen replays of stuff. I haven't seen anything. So all I know, it literally is what I saw with my own two eyes, like at the race. [00:05:21] Speaker C: How good of a view did you. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Have of the back stretch? [00:05:23] Speaker C: Perfect. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Saw the. [00:05:25] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [00:05:25] Speaker B: There was. [00:05:26] Speaker A: I didn't know if you were sitting high up enough to be able to see the entirety of the track. [00:05:30] Speaker B: You know, I was telling you about. [00:05:32] Speaker C: The little awning thingy that comes over. Yeah. [00:05:35] Speaker A: Like the press box where it pushes out. And we were the stands a little. [00:05:38] Speaker C: We were the first row inside that. [00:05:40] Speaker A: Okay, got you. So you're pretty high up there. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Row 54. There was only ten to 15 rows up. More you could go from where we were, and we were dead center in. [00:05:54] Speaker C: The middle, just to the left side of the flagstand. [00:05:58] Speaker B: And even before we get into this. [00:06:01] Speaker C: Podcast, I said this last year when. [00:06:04] Speaker B: We went to Atlanta. We didn't have a podcast when I went to Atlanta last year. But I just said this to you and my dad and Lindsay and everybody else. [00:06:12] Speaker C: The experience at Atlanta is incredible for a fan. Like, all the workers know exactly what's going on. [00:06:21] Speaker B: It's not like when we went to. [00:06:23] Speaker C: Nashville for the first time, which for. [00:06:25] Speaker B: The first time, the, like, no one. [00:06:30] Speaker C: Knew anything about what was going on. Like, the workers. [00:06:34] Speaker B: And that's nothing against them. It's just like it was the very first race, but they just had no clue where to tell you to go. [00:06:40] Speaker C: They didn't know what a hot pass was. [00:06:43] Speaker B: They didn't know what a cold pass. [00:06:45] Speaker C: They didn't know what anything was. [00:06:47] Speaker B: And, I mean, obviously, Atlanta has been racing since, like, the. Probably some of the people that work. [00:06:51] Speaker C: There have been working there since the knows exactly what's going on. The people are incredible. [00:06:59] Speaker B: I didn't see any fights. I didn't see any stupid people. I saw people having a blast. [00:07:05] Speaker C: The seating where we sat, like I. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Said, we did have some nicer seats, but they have this bar in front of you. Like, you have a table in front of you to sit all of your stuff on, your drinks, your food. [00:07:18] Speaker C: You can prop your feet up on it. [00:07:21] Speaker B: No one is, like, right up behind you, because right behind you is their bar thing. And in front of you, that's your bar. So you're not up on top of anyone. The seating is spread out enough to. [00:07:32] Speaker C: Where you're not up on top of. [00:07:35] Speaker B: You're not squeezed to death. And I saw pictures of people. [00:07:38] Speaker C: It's not like that across the whole entire thing. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Obviously, down in turn one, down in turn two, you just have your normal bleacher style seating. I saw some people that I saw that. [00:07:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Worst you can do is give somebody, like an unintentional shoey right behind you when you knock the beer over. Yeah, dude. [00:07:56] Speaker B: I mean, all in all, everything about it. I made a post about us going to the race. It was her first race ever, my. [00:08:03] Speaker C: Sister'S first race ever. [00:08:05] Speaker B: And I was like, damn, the bar. [00:08:06] Speaker C: Is set high, very high for your first race to attend, because this was off the chain. Yeah. [00:08:13] Speaker B: And just everything from the race to the finish to the experience to the fan zone. I ran into Brandon, got to talk. [00:08:21] Speaker C: To our buddy Brandon. Just everything. [00:08:24] Speaker B: They had driver appearances like crazy. [00:08:26] Speaker C: They had a trackside live that I. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Hear they're doing at all. [00:08:32] Speaker C: The SMI tracks, the Smith tracks, which. [00:08:35] Speaker B: Is like twelve of the series. Every single track. They're doing a trackside live, which is like what they did on tv, on. [00:08:43] Speaker C: Speed when I was a kid. [00:08:44] Speaker B: And William Byron, there's so many people out there. William Byron, the first thing he says. [00:08:49] Speaker C: Like, he's going to talk, he's like, damn, this looks like the old days. [00:08:53] Speaker B: And that's how cool it was. Dude, I have never fired up. Dude, it was crazy. Dude, I have never. [00:09:03] Speaker C: Have. It's something about that many people is. [00:09:08] Speaker B: In a smaller place than like, say, talladega. There's probably more people, but there's more land for all those people to spread. [00:09:15] Speaker C: Out on so it doesn't feel. [00:09:17] Speaker A: Yeah, they're more condensed down into one little spot. [00:09:20] Speaker B: My God, dude, the place was sold out. There was campers in the infield on both sides, campers all along the backside. People were camping in the parking lot. [00:09:31] Speaker C: Campers camping in the parking lot. It was packed. It was packed out. [00:09:38] Speaker B: The weather got up to like 72, sunny. And then with Dell Jr. All year harping on, this is the hottest ticket in NASCAR. If I had a new fan to take to a race, this is the one. [00:09:54] Speaker A: And it showed you why. [00:09:56] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I just can't even. Ten out of ten, like, ten stars. [00:10:00] Speaker C: Out of ten stars for Atlanta, for everything involved. Everything. Yeah. [00:10:07] Speaker B: And they were serving margaritas. I've never seen a racetrack serve margaritas. They were serving margaritas right behind us. Like, you walked out of the little, go down the stairs and turn around. [00:10:17] Speaker C: And walk back, Margarita stand right there. [00:10:20] Speaker A: So you were just sipping on margaritas, having a good old time up there. [00:10:23] Speaker B: I only drank one margarita, but then the rest of the time was beer. [00:10:26] Speaker C: But I mean, hell, Margarita all they. [00:10:30] Speaker B: Had, they had margaritas, spiked lemonade, and pretzels. [00:10:33] Speaker C: That's all. [00:10:33] Speaker B: This one place, this one little section had. [00:10:36] Speaker A: All they were missing was some polio and cremato, and you'd been. [00:10:39] Speaker C: Dude, dude. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Number 14. [00:10:40] Speaker B: Number 14. [00:10:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:43] Speaker A: If you're coming to Nashville, go to Cinco de Mayo and order a number 14. Ask for some tortillas. [00:10:47] Speaker C: You'll never be disappointed. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. And ask for some Valentina's hot sauce. [00:10:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:53] Speaker C: With that number 14. [00:10:54] Speaker A: It's just incredible. Just like s Atlanta race. [00:10:57] Speaker C: Honestly, it was awesome. [00:11:00] Speaker A: It sounds like a great damn time. [00:11:02] Speaker B: It was crazy, dude. And I've been to a bunch of. [00:11:05] Speaker C: Races, and you just said there was. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Never a dull moment, and it was from the front of the field to the back of the field, like, anywhere else. [00:11:16] Speaker C: It's like, even at Talladega and still. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Something, I think they're like, what, 2 miles away from you at Talladega, from the front stretch all the way to the back. Strom crazy. [00:11:25] Speaker A: They're a long damn way. [00:11:26] Speaker C: I know. Just. [00:11:27] Speaker B: You almost lose them on the back stretch or something. You know what I mean? It's like you almost have, like, a minute where you're like, okay, nothing's happening. Whatever. [00:11:35] Speaker C: It's a minute of that lap or. [00:11:37] Speaker B: Not a minute, but however long it. [00:11:38] Speaker C: Feels like a minute. Yeah. [00:11:39] Speaker B: And, dude, at Atlanta, it's just not like that. It is just balls to the walls. [00:11:45] Speaker C: And you feel like you're, like, right. [00:11:47] Speaker B: On top of them. And they are flying because everything is so condensed. [00:11:52] Speaker C: It looks like they are just scooting. [00:11:55] Speaker B: And Brad, he did the fan the trackside life thing, too, and he was. [00:12:00] Speaker C: Like, speed wise, this is not the. [00:12:03] Speaker B: Fastest track in NASCAR because tall degrade. They do get a little bit faster than what they run in Atlanta, but they are going 195, and he was like, when you're going 195 down into these corners, they are so tight, dude. He said, it feels like you are. [00:12:18] Speaker C: On a rocket ship. [00:12:19] Speaker B: And I'm like, you can visually see it. And then when a car comes from the top line all the way down, makes those moves, they can pass single car lines. It looks like that car has 100 extra horsepower because it's just, like, by the center of the corner, they're, like, made up. It looks like two football fields. [00:12:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:36] Speaker B: And they make it up that fast. And it's just like, to the naked. [00:12:40] Speaker C: Eye, watching it, you're just like, oh, my God. [00:12:43] Speaker B: It looks like this guy just had. [00:12:44] Speaker C: An extra gear to throw it into. [00:12:47] Speaker B: And pass this guy. [00:12:49] Speaker A: It was cool. To even watch it on the broadcast, because you can see that them taking that shorter arc around the corner was enough. There's enough difference there because of how tight that corner is that it does. [00:13:00] Speaker C: It looks like they picked up 10 miles an hour on the guy in front of them. And it's really cool to watch them have to adjust for the aero difference between trailing a car and being on their own in clean air. It's unbelievable watching, because one thing I'll. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Touch on this a lot more later. Fox absolutely nailed the broadcast. [00:13:22] Speaker C: Completely. [00:13:23] Speaker A: 100% nailed the broadcast. I only remember one time where something was going on I wanted to see. [00:13:28] Speaker C: That wasn't on the screen. And it's because they were showing something else that was important at the time. But they absolutely nailed the broadcast. [00:13:36] Speaker A: And they did a couple of new. [00:13:37] Speaker C: Things that I've never seen them do before. And one of them was something that. [00:13:43] Speaker A: You'Ve seen pieces and parts of it. You've seen every piece of this before, but you've never seen it all put together this way. [00:13:48] Speaker C: But they showed the top screen was. [00:13:51] Speaker A: The track and just the overview of the camera. [00:13:54] Speaker C: Just like normal. The bottom right was Brad Keslwski's foot on his throttle. [00:13:59] Speaker A: And the bottom left was the onboard of watching out the front of his windshield. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Of Brad. [00:14:05] Speaker C: Of Brad windshield. [00:14:07] Speaker A: So they had the camera pinned on him so you could watch him as. [00:14:09] Speaker C: He'S coming into the corner. And you watch his foot and he's in clean air. [00:14:14] Speaker A: And it's just floored on the gas the whole way. Going into that corner and all the way through it. [00:14:18] Speaker C: And one and two comes around to three and four. [00:14:20] Speaker A: And I want to say it was chastain, but somebody comes up in front. [00:14:23] Speaker C: Of him and blocks his run. [00:14:25] Speaker A: And as soon as he gets to that corner, foot completely out of the gas. Waiting on it. [00:14:30] Speaker C: Waiting on it. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Waiting on it. [00:14:31] Speaker C: Slammed, slams it all the way back down again. [00:14:34] Speaker A: And you just see the reaction of. [00:14:35] Speaker C: The car as it hits that dirty air. [00:14:38] Speaker A: It's what caused a lot of incidents. [00:14:39] Speaker C: Is people just getting right behind somebody and losing the nose of their car. And most of the time they were. [00:14:45] Speaker A: Able to save it. [00:14:46] Speaker C: It's just unbelievably. [00:14:48] Speaker A: Everybody talked about how close it was. [00:14:50] Speaker C: Your wheels are chattering. You're barely able to keep grip onto the track. [00:14:55] Speaker A: You're coming and flying around these corners, and you're right on the edge of. [00:14:58] Speaker C: Where the heck that car can hold. [00:15:00] Speaker A: Because the bumps are all coming back. They were talking about the washboard bumps. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Are coming back again. Yeah. So it's like, there's bumps, there's tight. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Corners, there's a lot of tight racing. There's people on your left and your right and in front of you and behind you, and everybody's got a different run, and you're just having to hold. [00:15:15] Speaker C: On for dear damn life. [00:15:17] Speaker A: And watching them take some of those corners four wide. [00:15:20] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:15:21] Speaker A: All of them were doing that at the same damn time. [00:15:23] Speaker C: And they held it together. [00:15:26] Speaker A: I turned to alison, I was like, that is some professional race car driving right there to make two corners in a row. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Even with the wrecks that happen, even with the couple wreck wrecks are going. [00:15:39] Speaker C: To happen, especially when it's like that. [00:15:42] Speaker B: But I also thought, I was like, the way they ran to the finish, the way they ran the race, there was such great racing. I said the same thing. I was like, this right here is why these are the best drivers out there, right there. [00:15:58] Speaker C: This is why. And I wanted to say this, exactly. [00:16:02] Speaker B: What you just said about the track, like, having the bumps and everything. I don't remember what year it was that they repaved a long. [00:16:11] Speaker C: It's been a while. [00:16:13] Speaker B: And before Daytona was repaved, it was old and wore out and slick. And I remember a lot of the older people talking when Atlanta first got repaved. And like that second race, when you came back and the track wasn't even black anymore, it was gray, which was incredible. Whatever they used to pave the track. [00:16:32] Speaker C: Is what the exact combination, the next repave should be. [00:16:37] Speaker B: That combination of asphalt and dirt and. [00:16:40] Speaker C: Sand and gravel and all the stuff. [00:16:42] Speaker B: They put in it, it is aged perfectly. [00:16:47] Speaker C: I wanted to say, though, watching those. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Cars, and I do remember watching some of these. I watched all these races back in. [00:16:54] Speaker C: The day at Daytona, but I remember. [00:16:57] Speaker B: All them saying, like, at Talladega, you don't have to worry about handling, but at Daytona, your car, you got to have it handling right. And like, off of two and off of four, car gets so light, it gets loose, you got off the gas, you got to drive the. Everybody. I remember everybody talking about that was the comparison of Daytona and Talladega when. [00:17:13] Speaker C: I was a kid. And obviously, I listened to every episode. [00:17:18] Speaker B: Of Dell Jr's podcast, and he was talking about the four Daytona 500 when. [00:17:22] Speaker C: He won it back. [00:17:24] Speaker B: He was like doing a recap of those two races he won coming up. [00:17:27] Speaker C: On the 10th and 20th anniversary of. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Those wins, kind of before the Daytona 500 even happened. And he really goes in detail about. [00:17:35] Speaker C: How at the end of those races. [00:17:37] Speaker B: It wasn't necessarily like big pack style racing. It was where these couple of cars could get together and they could go down and make moves. And if you haven't listened to it, you really should. He gets in detail about how the throttle is, and he has some telemetry on there. [00:17:52] Speaker C: He has a thing on his YouTube. [00:17:54] Speaker B: Channel of the telemetry of the throttle and stuff. But he's talking about exactly what we're talking about, going to high line, go to the low line, and how a single car could make passes without having a pack behind them, and how to pack air on the car and all that. All of those things that made old. [00:18:11] Speaker C: Daytona what it was is exactly what. [00:18:15] Speaker B: Is going on in Atlanta right now and why everyone is, like, freaking out watching the races. I mean, it is insane to watch the moves they make, the way they make them, the way you still have to have the pack, but the way you can also, like, the talent comes through of flat out being a badass race car driver, of making those moves on your own. It's just like everything a NASCAR fan wants and loves packed into one little mile and a half racetrack that's banked. [00:18:44] Speaker C: At 28 degrees straight up. Yeah, that's exactly it. I was even saying, like, in the middle of the race because I didn't. [00:18:54] Speaker A: Have anybody here to talk to because everybody else had already seen the race. So I turned my phone off, like, I turned the do not disturb on and put it down on the table, and I watched the entire race without. [00:19:02] Speaker C: Getting on anything so I could just watch it with clean eyes. [00:19:05] Speaker A: And I kept turning to Alice and. [00:19:07] Speaker C: Just be like, this is the best combination of plate racing and mile and. [00:19:13] Speaker A: A half racing you're ever going to. [00:19:14] Speaker C: See because it's just getting wore out. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Enough now to where you can start. It's almost like the runs start as. [00:19:21] Speaker C: A plate track and end as a drafting mile and a half because the. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Moves that you're having to make and. [00:19:27] Speaker C: Your ability to save and not do anything crazy to wear out your stuff. [00:19:34] Speaker A: Everybody that has better equipment is going to be a little bit faster than the guys with the older equipment because. [00:19:38] Speaker C: They'Re not having to lift. [00:19:40] Speaker A: It's just such a great combination of. [00:19:42] Speaker C: All the factors put together that makes. [00:19:45] Speaker A: Each of those great. [00:19:46] Speaker C: Because like you said, you can have one car making a wild move to pass two or three in one lap. [00:19:52] Speaker A: But you could also have the exact same thing happen. If somebody left you out to dry. [00:19:56] Speaker C: You'Re going to fall out to the back. [00:19:58] Speaker A: It's like such a great combination of. [00:20:00] Speaker C: All of those things you would really. [00:20:02] Speaker A: Have to earn the trust of your other drivers to get people to make moves with you. [00:20:05] Speaker C: So you got to be smart with what you're doing. And some guys really excelled at it. [00:20:10] Speaker A: And I would say nobody truly struggled. The only people that did were in. [00:20:14] Speaker C: That lap two wreck. Yeah, but, man, you talk about just. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Taking, just like you said, everything that you could possibly want out of a. [00:20:22] Speaker C: Race and put it all together. [00:20:24] Speaker A: It's not single file, it's double file up to four wide. [00:20:29] Speaker C: You got everybody racing their hearts out, making moves, leaving each other out to. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Dry, teaming up with each other. I mean, if you took your eyes. [00:20:38] Speaker C: Off, you were missing something. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:20:40] Speaker A: You'll just never see that at any other racetrack we have on the schedule right now. [00:20:45] Speaker C: Exactly the highlight of the year. [00:20:46] Speaker B: That's exactly what I mean. [00:20:48] Speaker C: It was just like, no matter where they were, what part of the track, it just felt like. [00:20:55] Speaker B: I've said it five times already, but you're just right there. You could not take your eyes off. [00:21:00] Speaker C: Of anything that was happening. And if that doesn't sell tickets, then. [00:21:08] Speaker B: I don't know what does. And obviously the proofs in the pudding. Like I said, I've never seen so many people there in my life. If I wouldn't have made some moves trying to get out of there. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Probably still be there. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd still be there right now. We sat in like, gridlock traffic for probably 45 minutes. Whatever it was. The race ended like 715. [00:21:30] Speaker C: We get to the car and we're. [00:21:32] Speaker B: Just sitting there and sitting there and sitting there. And people are like, some people are not even in their car. They're just sitting there drinking beer, hanging. [00:21:38] Speaker C: Out still, because nothing's moving. [00:21:40] Speaker B: And I told Megan, I was like, at 08:00 I'm going to give this till 08:00. When I say not an inch. I mean, we did not move an inch. We just sat there. I was like, I'm going to give this till 08:00. If something doesn't happen by then, we're. [00:21:53] Speaker C: Going to figure something out. And at 08:00 there wasn't a car. [00:21:57] Speaker B: Behind me which allowed me to be able to do this. I just backed up, went around and got in and just started going down this line. [00:22:04] Speaker C: And when I started, every damn vehicle. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Around, I mean, I had a train of like 100 people coming behind me, headlights going through, and we're not on a road. So they have those little dirt roads. [00:22:14] Speaker C: Where you go down park or whatever. [00:22:17] Speaker B: So we're going opposite of that. [00:22:18] Speaker C: So we're going grass, dirt, grass, dirt. [00:22:20] Speaker B: And it's just like this right here. There's a little Ford Taurus or Ford Focus, and they're just giving it hell through there like this. [00:22:27] Speaker A: I drive a 96 Ford Taurus, dude. [00:22:31] Speaker B: We get through there, go down, and we turn to the left, and going to the left gets us down to where it closer. We skip all these people over here. I'm sorry. Go to the right. We skip all the people on the left. And we're already closer to the exit down here. And I get. [00:22:44] Speaker C: And all these people are following me. And I was like, hell, yeah. [00:22:48] Speaker A: We're making happen here. This is what you call leading the line at Atlanta, right? [00:22:52] Speaker B: Exactly, exactly. And we get down, and then finally, when we get to the main line, a lady lets us in. [00:22:58] Speaker C: Boom. [00:22:58] Speaker B: Turn to the right. [00:22:59] Speaker C: We're on the damn highway. [00:23:01] Speaker B: Had to get through some traffic. [00:23:03] Speaker C: Atlanta traffic sucked ass, as it always does. [00:23:06] Speaker A: Oh, for sure. [00:23:07] Speaker B: But, man, I mean, that's what I was like. They've always joked around, like, traffic is a good thing at races because we. [00:23:13] Speaker C: Went through a period there where there. [00:23:16] Speaker B: Was no traffic at races because no one was showing up. And that is just not the case. [00:23:20] Speaker C: Atlanta motor Speedway. [00:23:21] Speaker B: Good. And they have the infrastructure because it's been there so long, and they open up all the lanes. I mean, it's like seven, eight wide, and people are just. It's seven or eight wide. [00:23:31] Speaker C: Trying to get out of this, out of the place. And it was good to see, even. [00:23:36] Speaker B: As annoying as it was to sit there for 45 minutes, it was good. [00:23:39] Speaker C: To see that many people. Because when we went last year, the. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Only reason there wasn't much people there. [00:23:47] Speaker C: Is because it was 30 degrees and. [00:23:49] Speaker B: It was frigid cold. [00:23:51] Speaker A: You just can't frigid control that. [00:23:54] Speaker B: And I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you. It was sought out. There was more people. I mean, as many people as you could fit in there. They had it, like I said, in between campers, there was more camping than I've ever seen because there was camping in front, in the front parking lot, like in the main, red parking or whatever. So you had your normal people on the inside, your other people in the. [00:24:14] Speaker C: Back, stretch that camp out there, all. [00:24:16] Speaker B: That camping, and then camping in the front. [00:24:18] Speaker C: That's how many people were camping at Atlanta this weekend. And I talked to a guy that. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Said that they go to Atlanta every year, whatever. He said, this is the most people. [00:24:30] Speaker C: I've ever seen here in my life. That's awesome. [00:24:32] Speaker B: I was like, I believe it. And I had told Megan we were down there. We're doing all the fun stuff. We're buying hats and t shirts. [00:24:40] Speaker C: Like I said, they had, like, 15 different drivers down there. [00:24:44] Speaker B: And we get down there early, and when we get down there early, you. [00:24:47] Speaker C: Can just kind of walk up, get. [00:24:48] Speaker B: Your stuff, and walk out. Well, we went down to that trackside. [00:24:52] Speaker C: Live thing and got up kind of. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Close to the front. We were all the way to the side, but up close to the front. [00:24:57] Speaker C: And props to Ty Gibbs. [00:24:59] Speaker B: He comes off the stage. He was up. He comes off stage. He signed autographs all the way in that l shape that he could get to. He's, like, climbing over cables. And where they had the big screens, they're on those big. [00:25:10] Speaker C: They got the feet that come off of them. [00:25:13] Speaker B: He climbed over those. He signed everyone he could get to. [00:25:17] Speaker C: In that l shaped piece to get over and signed. [00:25:21] Speaker B: And then little tiny squirrel boy, I. [00:25:23] Speaker A: Want to know how long it takes rambling. [00:25:26] Speaker B: But I'm just. [00:25:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Remembering all the stuff that we saw. Brad Kesalowski, he comes off stage, he. [00:25:33] Speaker C: Hops in the go cart. [00:25:34] Speaker B: And Brandon already told me they had some crazy scheduling stuff going on, so they hop in the go cart. Well, people were lined up on the outside of the gate like this. Like, the backstage area is, like, gated. [00:25:45] Speaker C: Off to get out of that gate. [00:25:47] Speaker B: There's people back. Dude, there's so many people around Brad Kasalowski's golf cart, you couldn't see the golf cart anymore. And Brandon can attest to it because Brandon's on the golf cart with him. There's so many people. [00:25:58] Speaker A: We got to get out of here. [00:25:59] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. [00:26:00] Speaker C: And when I texted Brandon, because I. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Had gotten this schedule thanks to Dustin Albino works for J Skis, I tagged him in a post on Twitter. I was like, does anybody know what time the appearances and stuff are? [00:26:14] Speaker C: And Jskis has thing on their website. [00:26:18] Speaker B: For every single race, a schedule of. [00:26:21] Speaker C: All the driver appearances, which is awesome. [00:26:24] Speaker B: So he put that on the post. [00:26:27] Speaker C: I made, and I screenshotted it, and. [00:26:30] Speaker B: I forgot where I was going with all Brandon. When I texted Brandon, I knew that Brad was going to be over there at whatever time it was, and I texted him, and I was like, hell, yeah. I was like, are you going to be with him? He's like, yeah, we just pulled up. I was like, we're here. He's like, where there's so many people. I was like, yeah, this place is slammed. [00:26:47] Speaker A: This is nuts. [00:26:48] Speaker B: And then we get out from over there, and we were going to go. I can't remember if we had gotten. [00:26:52] Speaker C: Our radios yet or not. And we go back and, dude, in. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Between the hauler, they had three rows of halt merch. [00:26:59] Speaker A: Hauler. [00:26:59] Speaker C: So they had a row here. A row. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Technically, it might have been four because the rows in the middle were, like. [00:27:04] Speaker C: Pointing out this way. [00:27:05] Speaker B: So you had, like, these two people. [00:27:07] Speaker C: In the middle, the two over here, people in the middle. It was so packed, you could not see. It was just packed. [00:27:13] Speaker B: You could not get anywhere. You couldn't see. You couldn't get to the haulers. [00:27:17] Speaker C: All those people were there. [00:27:18] Speaker B: And then one last thing I'm going. [00:27:19] Speaker C: To say about all the people we. [00:27:22] Speaker B: Go, and I've rented, obviously, I've had rented scanners at races since we were little kids. My dad, we used to have scanners and all that. [00:27:29] Speaker C: Back in the day. [00:27:31] Speaker B: Every race I've went to with a scanner, when the race is over, you can literally just walk up. There's no one over. [00:27:36] Speaker C: You just walk up and hand them your stuff. [00:27:37] Speaker A: Dude, they take it right over. [00:27:39] Speaker B: So many people are funneled into this thing. They have a woman on a ladder that works for racing electronics with a megaphone, like, saying, hey, turn your scanners off. Take the scanner out of your bag, put the headset in the bag, and we're going to try to make this go faster. There are thousands of people in trying. [00:27:57] Speaker C: To just return scanners. [00:28:01] Speaker A: That's beautiful. [00:28:02] Speaker C: It felt so old school in that. [00:28:05] Speaker A: Way with the people and all that, like redneck Disneyland. There was that many people there. [00:28:10] Speaker B: Dude, it is. And I don't know. It's the racing. [00:28:17] Speaker C: It's Atlanta. [00:28:18] Speaker B: It's the Netflix. It's the come up of everything that NASCAR has going on. [00:28:22] Speaker A: It's the 65 degree weather. [00:28:24] Speaker B: It's the 65 degree weather. [00:28:27] Speaker C: It was just everything, dude. And then that finish. [00:28:31] Speaker B: Sorry, I'm just rambling right now. I know, but like I said, I'm. [00:28:34] Speaker C: Just pumped up. [00:28:37] Speaker B: After the race was over last night. You know, you have all those famous meme Twitter accounts that post, like, funny stuff, and whether it be football or just regular world stuff, whatever it may. [00:28:48] Speaker C: Be, all their posts get 50 to. [00:28:50] Speaker B: 80 to 100,000 likes. I saw multiple of those accounts last. [00:28:55] Speaker C: Night, posting about NASCAR, about the cars. [00:28:58] Speaker A: I've had presentations. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Yes, dude, I've had a Twitter since January of 2014. I have never seen any mainstream media. [00:29:06] Speaker C: Account post about racing ever. [00:29:11] Speaker B: And the only way it was was because of some kind of controversial thing. [00:29:15] Speaker C: Or something that didn't really get, like. [00:29:18] Speaker B: It had nothing to do with the racing. If anyone ever posted stuff like that, it was always something else. [00:29:22] Speaker A: Never race stuff. [00:29:24] Speaker C: Yes, they were posting about the racing. [00:29:27] Speaker B: And I was like, this is incredible. And then I get on Twitter. I mean, I get on TikTok and obviously my whole TikTok is racing anyway. [00:29:35] Speaker C: It's racing and know recipes. [00:29:38] Speaker B: Yeah, I get on there. Every single video I see. [00:29:45] Speaker C: Every video. [00:29:46] Speaker B: Has 2030, 40, 5100 thousand likes. I click on their page so I can see the views. [00:29:53] Speaker C: Millions of views. [00:29:54] Speaker B: I don't know if there's ever been more eyes on a race and a finish possibly in the social media since the hail melon. [00:30:03] Speaker A: Pretty much that's like the thing. But even then it was about a specific action. It wasn't about just general race, even winning. [00:30:13] Speaker C: That's like a guy, I don't know, dude. [00:30:16] Speaker B: It was just something different. It's just like every single post was millions and millions of views. I personally would go out on a limb and say in the social media era of all this, that might be. [00:30:26] Speaker C: The most eyes and views on a. [00:30:29] Speaker B: Finish in a race ever. And they will, they posted an impression thing. [00:30:38] Speaker C: It was actually for the hell melon. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Adam Stern posts like, they post impressions and everything and that was the most viewed NASCAR video ever. But I think by the time Thursday rolls around Friday, this will beat it. [00:30:48] Speaker C: I really will definitely beat mean. [00:30:50] Speaker B: It's going to be millions of impressions. Yeah, it's going to be so many. [00:30:54] Speaker A: The Ross Chastain thing is one thing that you can watch one time and be like, damn, that was really cool. And then after that, if you see it again, it'll be like, oh yeah, I remember seeing that. Oh yeah, I remember seeing that. When this gets shown, it's like there. [00:31:06] Speaker C: Was an entire day's worth of stuff. [00:31:09] Speaker A: To be pulled out of that race. There's so many badass moments, there's so. [00:31:13] Speaker C: Many wild wrecks, so many cool things that happened during the entire course of the whole event. And then to end with that finish. [00:31:21] Speaker A: That just looks so much like the cars in. Yeah, it gives the regular person that's. [00:31:25] Speaker C: Not even a fan something to attach it to, and it gives anybody that's even a casual fan something to say like, that's badass. [00:31:34] Speaker A: That's really cool. It's one of those finishes. You can go back and rewatch it a thousand times and just see it in a different light every time. And I love that. [00:31:42] Speaker B: One of my favorite things I saw. [00:31:44] Speaker C: Was on one of those videos on TikTok. [00:31:47] Speaker B: A guy posted the first comment. It had a bunch of likes on it. So it was like the first comment on the video, and it said something along the lines of, I have never watched a race before, but watching the car, he didn't even know the guys in the car, but he's like, watching that car go to the middle, which was Kyle Bush, and make it three wide. He said, that gave me the. That's the shit that's going to make. [00:32:10] Speaker C: People. [00:32:13] Speaker B: Just fall in love with this sport. That's one of those finishes that no matter whether you're watching that in the bar, at the track, at your house, with your dad, with your wife, with your son, whatever, you're going to be like, damn, I remember I was when. [00:32:26] Speaker C: Suarez won that Atlanta race. [00:32:28] Speaker A: Yeah. It was my same reaction to the 2017 Brickyard 400 being my first race. If that was the first race you've. [00:32:36] Speaker C: Ever watched, damn, you're in for a. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Long ride because you're a fan now. Yeah, you can't help but be a fan now. [00:32:42] Speaker C: You're going to be itching for that next finish. [00:32:45] Speaker A: That's that close. And you're going to be so disappointed when the finish is like 5 seconds separated. Exactly. [00:32:50] Speaker B: It's like drugs. That's what you tune in for every week. [00:32:53] Speaker A: Bad finishes. To have something this bad ass. If this was happening every single week. [00:32:57] Speaker B: It wouldn't be as special. Exactly. [00:32:59] Speaker A: But the fact that it's never happened like that before is just the tops. Exactly what you want. [00:33:05] Speaker B: I posted on Twitter, and we've given NASCAR more flowers and props in the first three or four episodes of the season than we did ever last year. But I'm going to give it to him again. I posted on Twitter before the season even started, I was like, between the Netflix show and the NASCAR crocs, I've had more people reach out to me and be like, hey, have you seen this? Dude, this is awesome. Whatever. Than I ever have before in my life. And I feel know last year we talked about it a bunch on here, like, people about NASCAR, like, being on the come up. Like, more people talking about it, more people texting us about it. It's like doubled even from last year. I'm just from all kind of people. Just like yesterday I was getting texts. I had like 15 text messages on my phone of people that I talked to pretty regularly, but not people that I ever talked to about racing. And they were all like, oh, my God, dude, I saw that on tv. Whatever. Cody Parks, he hit me up. He was like, dude, I was watching this on tv and I was like, what the know, just stuff like that. There's just more. [00:34:11] Speaker C: There's. There is clearly more eyes on the sport right now. [00:34:16] Speaker B: In the last like three weeks. [00:34:20] Speaker A: I don't know, happening. If all these eyes were on the sport last year, maybe not yet last year. [00:34:26] Speaker C: Last year ended up turning out pretty all right. But if you had given eyes to the sport any years prior, I'd have been nervous. [00:34:34] Speaker A: I'd have been like, man, I don't know, all these eyes are a good thing, but I don't know if we'll give product that's going to like, put. [00:34:41] Speaker C: It two years ago, it would have. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Been, what is this exactly? [00:34:47] Speaker A: I mean, it was one of those things where it's just like if you put eyes on the sport at the wrong time, it can turn a lot of people off for another number of years. But talk about a great time to. [00:34:56] Speaker C: Be coming in if you're someone who. [00:34:59] Speaker A: Hasn'T paid a lot of attention to. [00:35:00] Speaker C: The sport up until now. [00:35:07] Speaker A: We are all about getting more eyes on it now because of how cool everything's been between them, making great calls for getting the race in at the bush clash between them, making, even moving. [00:35:16] Speaker B: The arker race, dude, last week it is proven that they are down to do stuff. [00:35:21] Speaker A: They are trying to make sure that it's good for the fans, it's good for whoever's there. It's good for the fans that aren't even at the track, just so that way they can have something to watch. [00:35:30] Speaker B: And previously, I don't know if they could have gave a damn at all, they would have, what, sat there and waited and let an Arcara run on Wednesday? You know what I mean? Those guys can't wait till Wednesday. They're doing it for the teams too. You know what I mean? Those guys can't afford to hotel rooms. [00:35:43] Speaker C: For three or four. [00:35:44] Speaker B: That's not in the budget. You know what I mean? [00:35:46] Speaker C: They're just thinking it feels like actually giving a damn about everybody involved. [00:35:52] Speaker A: They're finding a great crossover between what the fans need and what the teams need. And it's worked out great. So far all three of these races. [00:36:00] Speaker C: I have had almost no complaints about. [00:36:03] Speaker A: Anything that NASCAR has been doing lately. Yeah, and the only thing that anybody's even complained about is the finish to the 500. [00:36:09] Speaker C: And honestly, they've shown enough evidence for that. [00:36:13] Speaker A: I think anybody that still wound up. [00:36:14] Speaker C: About it just needs to jump off the soapbox. [00:36:17] Speaker B: Well, we made up for reality. [00:36:19] Speaker A: We've made up for it for sure. [00:36:21] Speaker B: We missed the last lap of the non just them guys like racing the racers too, giving a damn and putting. [00:36:31] Speaker C: On a show, racing each other and. [00:36:34] Speaker A: Not just trying to get a win. [00:36:35] Speaker B: Yeah, not just like throwing a guy in this, the 500, whatever, people just lay it into them and not let off. Just whatever it may be. And it happens at so much of those plate tracks. And it was so awesome and refreshing. [00:36:50] Speaker C: To see those guys put on that. [00:36:53] Speaker B: Show and in the way it did, it was incredible. [00:36:58] Speaker C: We said it while ago. Go show you. [00:37:01] Speaker B: That's what the world needs to see. That's why these guys are in those. [00:37:05] Speaker C: Cars and not Tom, Dick and Harry over here. [00:37:08] Speaker B: We're not just turning left. We're not just driving in circles, you know what I mean? Watching that kind of stuff takes away. [00:37:15] Speaker C: From people saying dumb stuff like that. In my for real. It does. It's like, you can't do that. [00:37:21] Speaker A: You cannot tell me that you can get in a car and drive four wide at Atlanta, 195 miles an hour. [00:37:28] Speaker C: On the edge of dying with a. [00:37:30] Speaker A: Car that's possibly going to swipe up in front of you and take all the air off your nose, do all this crazy crap and you're going to hold it with about six inches on either side of your car and not. [00:37:39] Speaker C: Give up and not pull out or not wreck everybody behind you. Just, dude, we can gush about it. [00:37:46] Speaker A: For forever, I swear. [00:37:47] Speaker B: My favorite quote, and I said before this podcast starts, like, do, we could talk an hour and a half about Atlanta and we got a lot to cover. We got a Daytona 500, we got a wedding, my wedding to talk about. We got like a lot of stuff to talk about in this podcast and we're already 40 minutes in on just Atlanta. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Just on Atlanta. [00:38:06] Speaker B: But my favorite quote from the weekend, and I was like, this nails everything about it. [00:38:11] Speaker C: And this could be a quote about. [00:38:15] Speaker B: NASCAR racing in general, but especially in Atlanta. Todd Gilliland goes, this racing here is like being in a haunted house. Like, yeah, I'm having fun, but I'm also scared to death the whole time. And I was like, that is that quote. [00:38:32] Speaker A: That's incredible. [00:38:33] Speaker B: That is a top tier quote. That is what racing is. It is fun, but you should be as, even as a fan, you're watching like, oh my God, these guys are like doing something insane. You know what I mean? [00:38:46] Speaker C: That is what racing is in all. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Forms, all forms of racing. [00:38:51] Speaker C: It is. [00:38:52] Speaker A: That is what it is. [00:38:53] Speaker B: It should be fun. But you should also realize they're racing a car at 200 miles an hour and it will never be safe. There's also that danger aspect that's in it, too. And it's just like, I just want to scream right now. I'm just still as pumped up as I was yesterday. [00:39:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:08] Speaker A: There's two quotes that I heard during the broadcast. One was Kyle Bush under that red flag that there was for the Briscoe wreck. [00:39:15] Speaker C: Kyle's sitting in the car. He's like, holy geez. [00:39:19] Speaker A: Or whatever the heck he said. He's like, oh, my gosh. I'm sick of speedway racing. I'd be good if there was not another speedway on the schedule for the rest of the year, because. [00:39:28] Speaker C: Just exhausted. [00:39:29] Speaker A: And it's just insane. It's crazy. And then Kevin Harvick is in the. [00:39:32] Speaker C: Booth, and he's talking about these guys. [00:39:35] Speaker A: That are racing around and sliding around and almost wrecking. [00:39:38] Speaker C: He's like, I'll tell you what, everybody. [00:39:41] Speaker A: Around here may talk to you about. [00:39:42] Speaker C: How, like, handling and speed, the drawbacks. [00:39:45] Speaker A: To taking one over the other. [00:39:46] Speaker C: And he's like, I'll tell you what. [00:39:48] Speaker A: I take handling every time. Even Chastain was saying, give me as much handling as you can, because I can't be fast if I'm wrecking the car every time I go into the turns. [00:39:56] Speaker B: Totally. [00:39:56] Speaker A: He's like, this is the most uncomfortable any of these drivers will feel all. [00:40:00] Speaker C: Year in their cars. [00:40:01] Speaker A: These cars do not drive good on this racetrack. It may look like a lot of fun to everybody out there, but these. [00:40:07] Speaker C: Guys are on the edge of wiping out at any given moment. [00:40:12] Speaker A: And that's what I've got to give the drivers credit for. I know we talked about them being so professional. [00:40:17] Speaker C: There may have been wrecks. [00:40:18] Speaker A: There may have been people that spun out. There may have been people that had incidents happen at random different times. But one thing I can say is. [00:40:25] Speaker C: That they managed to make it probably. [00:40:27] Speaker A: 20 to 30 laps in between each. [00:40:29] Speaker C: Of those incidents every time. [00:40:30] Speaker A: So these guys are giving it their. [00:40:32] Speaker C: All, and they're holding it together for. [00:40:34] Speaker A: The majority of the time. [00:40:35] Speaker C: The wrecks that do happen were just inevitable. [00:40:39] Speaker A: Eventually, somebody's going to have. Eventually, somebody's going to lose that air. But, man, it just blows my mind that it's never know how a typical. [00:40:47] Speaker C: Truck like the Daytona race for the trucks, every five freaking seconds there's a wreck. [00:40:53] Speaker A: No, it don't happen like that in the cup series. [00:40:55] Speaker C: They just send it, hold it together. [00:40:58] Speaker A: And wait till something just happens that's completely out of anybody's control before they wreck it out. [00:41:03] Speaker C: Then it just blows my mind that. [00:41:04] Speaker A: They can get away with that. [00:41:05] Speaker B: There's a couple nuggets that I wanted to hit, too. I listened to Larson's radio the whole time, and then under cautions, I would just scan and listen to everyone. And then obviously, I was listening to all kind of people after Larson wrecked. [00:41:17] Speaker C: But after the first wreck, they were. [00:41:22] Speaker B: Like, man, he's like, okay, the only good thing about this is maybe this first wreck will calm everybody's nerves, and. [00:41:27] Speaker C: We'Ll take it easy. [00:41:28] Speaker B: And then they're like, nope, that's out the window. This is boss walls. And then I can't remember if it was after the first stage or the second stage. It might have been the second stage when Larson worked his way up from. [00:41:39] Speaker C: When he had an issue on pit. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Road and worked his way back up to that next pit cycle and got. [00:41:44] Speaker C: Like, the third or whatever, which was. [00:41:47] Speaker B: Like a 17 or 18 spot gain, which was insane. [00:41:50] Speaker C: I mean, his car was a rocket ship. And for him to get out of. [00:41:54] Speaker B: The car within the race, he was smiling. He was like, this is the most fun I have ever had at a track. [00:41:58] Speaker A: And he posted that on twitter. [00:42:00] Speaker B: Yeah, he was like, topping in all caps and exclamation points. [00:42:03] Speaker C: And I was like, that's cool as hell. [00:42:04] Speaker B: Even Martin Truex Jr. Called it fun. And like, those are two guys that. [00:42:07] Speaker C: Hate this style of racing. [00:42:09] Speaker A: Yeah, Kyle Bush almost wins it. He usually doesn't perform great at these style of races. You got Blaney getting out of the. [00:42:16] Speaker C: Car and saying like, man, it just. [00:42:18] Speaker A: Doesn'T get any closer than that. He's like, I've won them by that close. I can't really be mad when I lose them by that close. The camera, and he's like, it's fun. It's too much fun to be mad about the result unless you got intentionally taken out. [00:42:31] Speaker C: But honestly, I can't point to anybody other than anybody being mad at Gilland. [00:42:37] Speaker A: For kind of stacking up the field. [00:42:38] Speaker C: There at the beginning. [00:42:40] Speaker A: The best part, I told you before. [00:42:41] Speaker B: This, no one was mad at Tod Gillen. On the radio, I heard multiple people just dogged the 19 out, though. The three. Everybody that was on the scanner was like, the 19 hit the three, and then they're like, the fuck. [00:42:54] Speaker A: I mean, he did. They were so stacked. They were so stacked up. [00:42:59] Speaker B: I'm bet I had no idea till you told me before the race. [00:43:04] Speaker A: True X's spotter honestly just didn't. Maybe he didn't see because it was a few cars up, the stack up coming or something. I mean, it's right there at the beginning of the race. [00:43:12] Speaker C: You're not expecting something like that, man. [00:43:15] Speaker B: I wanted to hit one last nugget, though, about Larson's radio, and it was at that second stage he goes in, Larson. Like, larson isn't driver. And he's talked about. He doesn't talk during the race, like, while he's racing. It's all them talking to him. [00:43:29] Speaker C: He doesn't really talk at all. [00:43:32] Speaker B: And as soon as they cross the. [00:43:34] Speaker C: Finish line, Larson goes, dude, have you changed your batteries? [00:43:37] Speaker B: He's talking to a spotter, Tyler. I think his name's Tyler Mond. Mond, something like that. [00:43:41] Speaker C: He goes, dude, have you changed your batteries? [00:43:45] Speaker B: And the guy. And the Tyler comes back on the radio. [00:43:47] Speaker C: He's like, on my third set. [00:43:49] Speaker B: On my third set, dude, me and Megan, just our radios, we went through two sets of batteries on our own. And it was just nonstop, nonstop information. It was insane. [00:44:03] Speaker A: Bubble. Wallace talks about it on Twitter. [00:44:04] Speaker B: I saw his Twitter post and I actually listened to the 23 because I listen to door bumper clear every week, too. So I had never listened to Freddie spot. [00:44:13] Speaker C: Freddie is a phenomenal spotter. I mean, there's a reason Freddie is a Cup series. [00:44:18] Speaker B: Like, he is an incredible spotter. [00:44:20] Speaker C: And you could close your eyes and. [00:44:25] Speaker B: Not just Freddie, all these spotters at the top level, you can just close. [00:44:27] Speaker C: Your eyes and they just paint the picture. You could see the race without even. [00:44:33] Speaker B: Your eyes being open, which is insane, the information they give. [00:44:37] Speaker C: But then also, there was a couple. [00:44:40] Speaker B: Of times where stuff would happen so fast. Like, we were just talking about how they could cover 200 yards of ground. [00:44:47] Speaker C: In a split second. [00:44:49] Speaker B: There was guys on the radio being like, inside. It happened so fast, I couldn't even tell you inside fast enough. That's the kind of stuff that you heard that on the radio throughout the chatter the whole entire race. And there were situations, too. I think it was towards end of the race, I can't remember who I was listening to, but there was a car that were coming out of four, and the spotters are above us and you just can't have a good view. And I was like, he looks clear. But the spotter wasn't clearing him. Whoever it was in the middle lane and was going to go down to the bottom and the nose of that car might have been in there by this much. But the spotter never said clear. He was like, it was never clear. And he wasn't cleared back up until they came back up into, like, the dog leg in the next corner. When the outside car had more momentum. [00:45:35] Speaker C: To get around but it was just, like. [00:45:38] Speaker B: It was insane, dude. It was awesome. [00:45:40] Speaker C: Everything about it was awesome. [00:45:43] Speaker B: And did you see my Twitter video of the guy that was the Suarez fan in the crowd screaming in the. [00:45:49] Speaker C: Wow. [00:45:50] Speaker B: I missed the first part, but he was saying, like, suarez against the world, bitches. If you don't like you, I'll just go into town. [00:45:58] Speaker C: And he starts speaking in Spanish, and. [00:46:01] Speaker B: It was just like. And people were just, like, loving it. [00:46:05] Speaker C: For this guy because, I mean, I'll be. Didn't. I didn't see any other Suarez fans. [00:46:10] Speaker B: This is not a dig on Suarez, but I didn't see any other Suarez fans. Like, when he gets announced, it's not. [00:46:15] Speaker C: Like a big cheer. He's just kind of like, he's a. [00:46:18] Speaker B: Great race car driver, and he's just. [00:46:20] Speaker A: One of the drivers. [00:46:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he's one of the drivers, but this guy specifically. And then I saw a video that trackhouse posted of a lady that said she had been a fan of Suarez since the Xfinity days, and she's in the front row, and she was an. [00:46:31] Speaker C: Older lady, and she's just like. [00:46:34] Speaker B: She's just bawling her eyes out in the front down there, and they're like, this is what it's all about. And Daniel commented back to her and whatever. [00:46:40] Speaker C: But. [00:46:43] Speaker B: Me and you, we've gotten to see our favorite drivers win before, and it's awesome. It's an awesome talk about it. Like, when you go to a football game or a baseball game, you got a 50 50 shot. I've seen the team. [00:46:56] Speaker C: You're there winning. [00:46:57] Speaker B: When you go to a NASCAR race. [00:46:59] Speaker A: You got one of 41 in 40. Yeah, maybe one in 30, realistically. [00:47:04] Speaker B: But still, chances aren't that great. So I loved it. That's why I videoed that guy. I was like, this is me. After a Larson win, this guy, he. [00:47:13] Speaker A: How you're supposed to feel? [00:47:14] Speaker C: Yes. [00:47:14] Speaker B: It was so cool. [00:47:16] Speaker C: And he was just like, I said. [00:47:18] Speaker B: He'S, like, speaking in Spanish. He was, like, saying, vomanos. And I looked up what vominos means. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Let's go, let's go, let's go. [00:47:26] Speaker B: And I was like, hell, yeah. [00:47:28] Speaker A: It was awesome. [00:47:29] Speaker B: I was just, like, looking up shit. [00:47:31] Speaker C: That he was saying. [00:47:32] Speaker B: It was so cool. And the whole, like, suarez against the world. Like, Suarez is the man. I was kind of taking it in, and then it clicked. [00:47:40] Speaker C: I was like, I need a video of this. [00:47:42] Speaker B: And he was just, like, kind of getting towards the end of his going. [00:47:45] Speaker C: To town there, but damn. Yeah. It was actually to speak to the. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Fox broadcast that I mentioned a minute ago. I don't know what switch they flipped from Daytona to Atlanta, and maybe it's just how exciting the race was. [00:48:06] Speaker C: It's a combination of that and some. [00:48:09] Speaker A: New things that they added into the. [00:48:10] Speaker C: Broadcast, but it just felt like they were so much more focused on the excitement of the thing and informing you. [00:48:20] Speaker A: Without speaking down to you or telling. [00:48:22] Speaker C: You the same thing you've heard a thousand times. [00:48:25] Speaker A: There was a great segment that they've added that you'll probably see next week, and I don't know if they was at the 500, I don't remember seeing this, but it's a cracker barrel on. [00:48:34] Speaker C: The menu segment where Larry Mac will talk about the upcoming race strategy for the stage, but it would include the. [00:48:43] Speaker A: Little blurbs, and it was such a. [00:48:45] Speaker C: Great little addition to stage one to. [00:48:49] Speaker A: Where anybody that was watching that may not understand pit cycles very well. He just lays it out in three bullet points, basically saying, here's your three strategies. You either do what you showed up. [00:48:59] Speaker C: For and you run that gas tank until it's pretty much empty and then you pit. Or if there's a caution, you may. [00:49:06] Speaker A: Have some guys that aren't worried about losing any stage points if they are. [00:49:09] Speaker C: Not earning them already. They'll go in and pit and try to get extra gas to make it to the end of the stage. And then if you have a caution. [00:49:17] Speaker A: Right at the end of the stage. [00:49:18] Speaker C: Here'S what you do. [00:49:19] Speaker A: But it basically just laid out like in these three scenarios in this race. [00:49:24] Speaker C: If any of these three things happen. [00:49:25] Speaker A: Here'S what you're going to see a whole lot of. So that way you were prepared for. [00:49:29] Speaker C: It whenever it came up. [00:49:30] Speaker A: And then also they had a little segment where they got a bunch of guys that were nabbed for speeding. [00:49:35] Speaker C: Because pit road, I don't know if. [00:49:36] Speaker A: You know how much of a nightmare. [00:49:38] Speaker C: Pit road was for everybody, but there. [00:49:40] Speaker A: Was probably 1820 speeding calls. [00:49:44] Speaker B: There were guys coming across the radio. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Every single pit stop because you got. [00:49:48] Speaker B: To hit on for 90 miles an hour, and then your 45 doesn't start. [00:49:54] Speaker A: Until literally the first line of that pit line. Yeah. So it was almost like every time there was a pit stop cycle, Mike Joy would have to read out five different penalties at minimum, sometimes up to. [00:50:06] Speaker C: Like ten different penalties that happened under that pit stop cycle. [00:50:10] Speaker A: And so whenever they nabbed, like five. [00:50:12] Speaker C: Or six people for speeding, he said. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Something along the lines of, I hope those guys up on interstate, whatever it is, to get down to the track, I think those motorcycle cops must have been sitting at the end of pit road, because we got a bunch of. [00:50:23] Speaker C: Guys nabbed for speeding, and it just. [00:50:25] Speaker A: Showed the graphic with police sirens on the top of it, just showing all. [00:50:28] Speaker C: The people that were speeding. [00:50:30] Speaker B: And then I'm so surprised they didn't call a caution. But the 34 and the 24, they wrecked road. [00:50:38] Speaker A: And this was stressed me the hell out, because I thought William Byron was about to go back up on the racetrack to get around Michael McDown. I was like, holy shit. Don't do like, I just saw him dying right in front of me happening. [00:50:49] Speaker B: One of the coolest things. [00:50:51] Speaker C: And this just goes to show you how badass a race car driver is. [00:50:56] Speaker B: But no one said a word to Kyle Larson about them wrecking about them. They obviously, the only reason they would have said anything was there as caution. They're giving him pit road speed, counting him down, telling him about his lots, telling him what gear they're doing, all that. Nothing changed. Even though you got two guys wrecking behind him that were pitting. Larson was about a corner ahead of where they were coming in at. Larson was already about in main pit. [00:51:22] Speaker C: Road when that happened. [00:51:23] Speaker B: Okay, so no one says a word. [00:51:25] Speaker C: To Larson that stays green. [00:51:28] Speaker B: And whatever end of that stage was, they get back around, and Larson is sitting down there after the caution, and he goes, so what happened to the 24? [00:51:38] Speaker C: How did he get nose damage? [00:51:42] Speaker B: How did he see that? [00:51:44] Speaker C: You know what I mean? I was mind blown that he even. [00:51:48] Speaker B: Saw that on the racetrack, but no one said a word to him about that. And he asked. It was at the end of that. [00:51:53] Speaker C: Stage, so whenever that was, that pit. [00:51:56] Speaker A: Was right in the middle of the. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Halfway. [00:51:58] Speaker A: Right in the middle of the cycle. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Exactly. So it was like, halfway through a stage, probably. So he went a whole half a stage and then saw the 24 car. [00:52:05] Speaker C: Or whatever, and then he's like, how. [00:52:08] Speaker B: Did the 24 get nose damage? [00:52:10] Speaker C: And I'm just like, how the hell did you see that? Yeah. [00:52:14] Speaker A: The one thing that was cracking me up, too, on the broadcast, they stopped showing vehicles that were involved in accidents and started just showing cars that have not been involved in a wreck today. And it started out with, like, probably twelve to 17 drivers. And then they'd show that graphic again after every single wreck, and it just kept getting smaller until, though, I think it finished with, like, maybe six or. [00:52:35] Speaker C: Seven drivers that were not involved in causing or being a part of a wreck that caused a caution all day long. [00:52:43] Speaker A: And it was hilarious because they just kept talking about it, like, oh, we might just see this thing get down to zero. You just never know. [00:52:50] Speaker B: I thought something that was cool that we haven't seen in the last two seasons of this car. Usually when they wreck, they take them straight to the garage. That was not the case this weekend. There was cars with Bondo and 200 miles an hour tape and all the. [00:53:04] Speaker C: Things like even Legano. [00:53:06] Speaker B: Legano nailed the wall on the right. He did. [00:53:10] Speaker A: They fixed that wall. [00:53:12] Speaker B: There were plenty of cars. Hamlin, his car was destroyed. He stayed in the right. Even though he couldn't run. He was way off the pace. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Hamlin was involved in every other incident that happened. It was hilarious. He had a rough day at Atlanta. He'd probably talk about how fun it was, but how miserable it was at the same time. [00:53:28] Speaker B: Totally. I just thought it was cool to. [00:53:30] Speaker C: See all the guys still get their. [00:53:33] Speaker B: Cars fixed, even with the. [00:53:35] Speaker C: I think they moved the damage policy. [00:53:38] Speaker B: Up to like six or 7 minutes now, so they got a little more time. I think that little more time does. [00:53:42] Speaker C: Help, but do to hear how stressed. [00:53:45] Speaker B: Out they were, too. I was listening to the 45 when this was going on there, down there on pit road, and he's like, we got 10 seconds. [00:53:51] Speaker C: Nine, eight. [00:53:51] Speaker B: And he's like, get the tire, get the tire. [00:53:52] Speaker A: And he's like, go, go. [00:53:53] Speaker B: And then they get him back on pit road. And he was like, you cannot come down pit road because the clock starts again. He was like, yeah. Do not come down pit road for any reason. [00:54:02] Speaker C: Any reason at all. [00:54:03] Speaker B: Do not come down pit road. Stay on the track until we meet minimum speed, then we'll come back down. And then it seemed like after he met minimum speed, Tyler Reddick pitted about every ten laps. I'm not kidding you. That's what it felt like. [00:54:16] Speaker C: Well, they had to call him for. [00:54:17] Speaker A: Pitting too early, like a thousand times on the broadcast, Allison was like, what's going on? Why did Reddick get a penalty? I was like, I guarantee you they're doing that shit on purpose. I guarantee you they're doing it. They're pitting with the lead lap cars because they just don't give a damn what's a penalty to them at this point. They're just trying to stay in it because they know someone else is going. [00:54:33] Speaker C: To get wrecked out. [00:54:33] Speaker B: Totally. And that was a lot of those guys, too. Even with that red flag with like 16 to go or whatever, and those guys like, host of our. There's a couple of guys that are just barely getting their cars fixed and they're like, there's going to be more happen here. [00:54:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:48] Speaker B: And like, BJ McLeod, they worked on his car all day long, and they kept saying, like, we're going to get a good finish out of this. They ended up finishing the top 25. [00:54:56] Speaker C: Because of all the stuff. They got their car fixed. [00:54:58] Speaker B: They used all 7 minutes of their stuff. He got caught up in that first. [00:55:02] Speaker C: Wreck in the lap two wreck and. [00:55:05] Speaker B: Ended up finishing 24th. And I was like, hell yeah, dude. That's a good payday for the old unsponsored, just having fun car. [00:55:13] Speaker A: It was really funny, too, to watch as they did restarts. After all those wrecks started happening, Mike. [00:55:18] Speaker C: Joy was like, it's going to look. [00:55:20] Speaker A: A little goofy on this restart, but every other car has to go at the tail end of the longest line, and, well, that longest line just happens to be really damn long. So I know you all saw that. [00:55:29] Speaker C: But when the inside line is like. [00:55:31] Speaker A: Maybe nine cars long, and then the outside is every other one of the 30 cars on the track trailing all. [00:55:36] Speaker C: The way back to turn four, it. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Was the goofiest thing to see on the broadcast. You totally got why it was. [00:55:42] Speaker C: Yeah, man, it just looked like an. [00:55:44] Speaker B: Old school restart when the last cars. [00:55:46] Speaker C: Are on the inside. [00:55:47] Speaker A: Yeah, but that's what I loved about, it's exactly what you said. [00:55:50] Speaker C: These cars can make it through these. [00:55:53] Speaker A: Type of wrecks and have incidents and get back out on the track. The fact that so many cars were able to be in a wreck and stay on the track was blowing my mind. [00:56:01] Speaker C: And even to the point where a car that in the previous generation of cup car would never have been able to even be back on the track. [00:56:11] Speaker A: Not only was someone like Chase Elliott's. [00:56:13] Speaker C: A great example, he wrote, like, he would get damaged. [00:56:16] Speaker A: Yeah, he's involved in a bunch of different things. He had tons of tape all over his car. But not only was he able to. [00:56:21] Speaker C: Continue, but he was competitive as he continued. And so it testament to the car. [00:56:27] Speaker A: Testament to the track, testament to everything that's going on. [00:56:30] Speaker C: They're putting these cars on the track, and they're damn straight plan on keeping them on the track. They don't want to. [00:56:37] Speaker B: One of my favorite questions that Megan. [00:56:39] Speaker C: Asked, like I said, this was Megan's. [00:56:41] Speaker B: First ever NASCAR race going to one. She's watched plenty on tv, but she had the headset on, too, and she's listening and all the stuff. And one of my favorite questions she was, so why? Why does Chase Elliott and these other cars get to wreck multiple times? But Larson wrecked once and he was done. [00:57:03] Speaker C: And I was like, because he had. [00:57:06] Speaker B: Way more damage on one wreck and it was over with. But she thought it was funny, like multiple guys could erect multiple times and then one guy wrecked once and then you're just over with. [00:57:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:16] Speaker A: It's like severity and the direction of the impact. That's a good question. [00:57:19] Speaker B: That's a really good question because I. [00:57:21] Speaker C: Would have never thought about that. [00:57:23] Speaker B: Because, like, seeing a guy, dude, chase, literally was in like four or five different wrecks. Like, every wreck that happened, he was in it and never got major damage. [00:57:32] Speaker C: But still kept going and kept going and kept going. [00:57:35] Speaker B: I mean, they were on pit road. [00:57:37] Speaker C: A ton and then he was right. [00:57:39] Speaker B: Inside the top ten there towards the end. [00:57:41] Speaker C: So I don't know, man. [00:57:44] Speaker B: It was awesome. Just all that to say for the last hour that we've talked Atlanta was that I feel like we've only been. [00:57:51] Speaker C: Talking for like 10 minutes. Yeah. [00:57:53] Speaker A: But it was how good it is. You could just sit and talk about it for forever. And it's worth the conversation. A couple of guys that really stood. [00:58:01] Speaker C: Out to me was, I mean, Pinsky and Pinsky partners, I don't know, about. [00:58:08] Speaker A: 21, 21 got that major damage. Little in lap two. [00:58:12] Speaker B: Time out. [00:58:12] Speaker C: Time out. [00:58:13] Speaker B: IPad is about to shut off. So you keep talking while I grab my charger. It's right here. But I got to get up and get out of my backpack. But old girl is about to turn off. [00:58:22] Speaker A: It says, yeah, get her done. So one thing I really loved about the Pinsky cars is it wasn't just Pinsky. It was the live, not live fast front row motorsports. [00:58:34] Speaker C: The 34 and the 38 were absolute rocket ships. [00:58:39] Speaker A: They had everything that you needed to. [00:58:41] Speaker C: Have to lead those lines to make moves. [00:58:44] Speaker A: Watching them pit and go all the. [00:58:46] Speaker C: Way to the rear of the pack just for him to slice and dice his way up. [00:58:51] Speaker A: I know he's good at these types. [00:58:52] Speaker C: Of racetracks, but it's unbelievable to watch. [00:58:56] Speaker A: Somebody do something like that when I. [00:58:58] Speaker C: Know one of his partners, as in Penske and the alliance with front row. [00:59:06] Speaker A: Watching Blaney, who I know is a really good driver at this track as. [00:59:10] Speaker C: Well, watching him try to do the same thing, but then seeing Michael McDowell. [00:59:16] Speaker A: And Tod Gilland up in the front of the lines the entire time that. [00:59:20] Speaker C: They were racing, racing their absolute hearts out, doing everything that they could, it. [00:59:25] Speaker A: Was really cool to watch. That was. Those cars on a super speedway are the ones to watch right now. [00:59:31] Speaker C: I mean, between Pinsky and front row, it's going to be hard to beat. [00:59:36] Speaker A: Them at any point in the season unless somebody finds something that can come. [00:59:39] Speaker C: Out and try to take them on with it. [00:59:42] Speaker A: Shr was also having a good run, but Ford's in general right now on super speedways. [00:59:46] Speaker C: We thought they were fast last year. They are just as fast and have. [00:59:51] Speaker A: Gotten even more of an edge than. [00:59:53] Speaker C: They did last year. [00:59:55] Speaker A: Coming up on 2024. Watching it in the middle of the race, I was just looking down the. [00:59:59] Speaker C: Scoreboard, and I was like, ford. Ford. Ford. Ford. Chevy. [01:00:03] Speaker A: Toyota. [01:00:04] Speaker C: Ford. [01:00:04] Speaker A: Chevy. Toyota. [01:00:05] Speaker C: Toyota. Ford. Ford. Chevy. Ford. Ford. It was wild, and Pinsky and Pinsky partners were just leading that pack. They told Larson at one point, I. [01:00:16] Speaker B: Was like, you're surrounded by Fords. I know you know that, but just keep that in mind. I did not know this until the. [01:00:23] Speaker C: Daytona 500 qualifying front row is now. [01:00:27] Speaker B: A top tier Ford. [01:00:29] Speaker C: They're a number one Ford team. [01:00:31] Speaker B: They're getting all the money, all the resources, all the Penske partnership, and a Penske partnership, and they are. I don't know if you already said this. [01:00:39] Speaker A: I didn't hear anything. [01:00:40] Speaker B: You said. [01:00:42] Speaker A: How they're slice and dice through the field even better than some of the Penske cars could. Like Blaney, then McDowell starting back at. [01:00:49] Speaker C: The back of the pack, starting almost side by side. [01:00:53] Speaker A: McDowell would be up at the front of the pack, and Blaney'd still only be cutting through about 10th or 11th on the same path to get up to the front, it was just incredible to see that. [01:01:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. And I'm super pumped to see what. [01:01:06] Speaker C: They do because we talked about Michael McDowell a bunch last year, but, man, they are flying. [01:01:14] Speaker B: And the 38 car has got the most laps led of anyone in the season. You got the 34 sat on the front row, one pole, and a second place first two races, and the 38. [01:01:26] Speaker C: Car qualified, like, third or fourth. You know what I mean? They're flying. [01:01:31] Speaker A: They are flying. And that's the wild part about it. [01:01:34] Speaker C: Is with this new schedule, the way it's set up, it's so fun to. To watch it, and it's like, man. [01:01:42] Speaker A: We started out with a hell of a bang. And the one thing I want to say to anybody that hasn't watched NASCAR in a long time, it's going to be a lot different for a good. [01:01:49] Speaker C: Few races until they get back to Talladega in April. [01:01:52] Speaker A: It's going to change it up a little bit. It's going to settle into more of. [01:01:54] Speaker C: A normal NASCAR rhythm, but it's going to be really fun to watch those. [01:02:01] Speaker A: Cars that did so damn well at this style of racing. How does that translate to the races. [01:02:08] Speaker C: That we have coming up next? Because that's all based off of aerodynamics and engine power. [01:02:15] Speaker A: Now you're going to go straight into these other racetracks where it's going to be a lot. Handling is going to edge into it a lot more. Some of these short tracks where arrow. [01:02:23] Speaker C: Isn'T going to be as important. [01:02:27] Speaker A: Like. [01:02:27] Speaker C: The Fords, where are they going to struggle this year? [01:02:29] Speaker A: I don't see a major shift happening. I still see them struggling at these. [01:02:33] Speaker C: Short tracks and these intermediates. [01:02:35] Speaker A: But, man, it's lights out right now. [01:02:38] Speaker C: For the blue ovals up front. That don't have blue ovals anymore. Yeah. [01:02:42] Speaker A: That don't have blue ovals anymore. The dark horses. [01:02:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:02:48] Speaker B: I'm still pumped up, dude. It's crazy. [01:02:50] Speaker A: It's hard not to be. [01:02:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:02:52] Speaker A: After everything we got to see, it's incredible that we survived the weekend. [01:02:56] Speaker B: All right, so we went 1 hour. [01:02:58] Speaker C: Here about. [01:03:02] Speaker B: The last, the last few. [01:03:04] Speaker C: Weeks of NASCAR and life have been insane. [01:03:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Starting three weeks ago. [01:03:13] Speaker C: So three weeks ago, announced on here. [01:03:17] Speaker B: Signed the publishing deal. [01:03:18] Speaker C: Caleb came with me. I did. [01:03:20] Speaker A: I was super hungover that day. It was a lot of fun. [01:03:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it was awesome. [01:03:23] Speaker C: So like signed a publishing deal, got married, went on a week long honeymoon. [01:03:29] Speaker B: Got back on Saturday and went to the race on. [01:03:34] Speaker C: It's just been, it's been nuts. [01:03:37] Speaker B: And I was going to get this into Daytona. [01:03:42] Speaker C: So on the Daytona wise, I didn't. [01:03:46] Speaker B: Get to do it traditionally. Sit down and watch the whole race. I watched every single lap. [01:03:52] Speaker C: But we planned. [01:03:58] Speaker B: Let's talk about our plan here. [01:04:00] Speaker C: We had, Caleb was the best man in the wedding. [01:04:04] Speaker B: Props to Caleb Connery here. I owe this man. I told him his wedding, if he wants me to do backflips, he said. [01:04:10] Speaker C: Like, do a backflip, I'll do it. [01:04:12] Speaker B: Like, him and Allison helped out so freaking much. The wedding was awesome. Ton of people from Nashville, ton of family. It was incredible. We had a blast. I was never been more nervous in my whole entire life. [01:04:25] Speaker C: I thought it was going to die the whole time. [01:04:29] Speaker B: But all in all, it was incredible. I got a new piece of jury on my finger now. [01:04:35] Speaker C: Looks pretty. So we had a plan this whole time. So Caleb and Allison, we all had. [01:04:44] Speaker B: Hotel rooms on Friday night for rehearsal dinner Saturday for the wedding. At the reception, everybody had hotel rooms right downtown. And then Caleb and Allison were going to stay here with us on Sunday night. We're going to watch the 500 on Sunday. And then Sunday night we're going to do the podcast like we did in the hotel room that time and just set up both in here and recap the race after. We just literally in the race, do a podcast. [01:05:12] Speaker C: Yeah. And then the rain screwed all that up. [01:05:14] Speaker A: It screwed it up hard. [01:05:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:05:16] Speaker B: So that ended up Caleb and Alison stayed in town. [01:05:20] Speaker C: We went and we went to my. [01:05:24] Speaker B: Dad, and y'all got to see dad's new house. [01:05:28] Speaker A: He tried to sell me a camper and a truck. [01:05:30] Speaker C: Still pondering it. [01:05:32] Speaker B: Caleb's going to buy some land and. [01:05:33] Speaker C: Buy a camper and a truck and then put a house on the land. [01:05:38] Speaker B: We're going to get Caleb to move down here to north Georgia, though. [01:05:41] Speaker C: That's the plan. [01:05:42] Speaker A: Hey, it's not out of the car. [01:05:45] Speaker B: Then we went and ate mexican food, had a couple of margaritas, and then we came back to the house and we drank beer and we just hung out. [01:05:52] Speaker A: And me and Caleb, actually, we watched race car day. We used to watch the 2004 Daytona 500. And then we went and we watched. What was it? 85 Darlington. Yeah, 85 Darlington. I'm trying to remember which. 185 or 87. One of the two. [01:06:08] Speaker C: Bill Elliott won it. Did he end up. Yeah, he did. I couldn't remember. [01:06:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it was about 01:00 in the morning. Like a one two margaritas and a bunch of beer later, Bill Elliott ended up winning a race for us. [01:06:20] Speaker B: We had a blast. [01:06:21] Speaker C: And, like, Allison and Lindsay stayed up. [01:06:23] Speaker B: And hung out and watched race, and we shot the Shit know talked about. [01:06:27] Speaker C: The day before and made fun of. [01:06:30] Speaker B: Me for how nervous. Really, no one made fun of me for how nervous I was except myself. [01:06:35] Speaker C: It was indeed. [01:06:37] Speaker B: Okay, so I'm trying to get shaking like a. So Sunday didn't happen Monday. Left for the honeymoon. We get into town Monday and we wanted to go. Our favorite place to eat is blue moose down there. And Lindsay's sister got us a gift card to go eat at Blue Moose, which is like a wingburg. [01:06:56] Speaker C: Yes. [01:06:56] Speaker B: Pigeon Forge is where this place. [01:06:57] Speaker A: Pigeon forge. [01:06:58] Speaker C: Okay. [01:07:00] Speaker B: Anyone that's been there, if you haven't, the wings there are incredible. It's a sports bar because the coolest. [01:07:09] Speaker C: They have tvs in every booth, and there's like, not hundreds, but a bunch. [01:07:14] Speaker B: Of tvs, like, across the place. I mean, it's playing all kind of stuff. They had Olympics or not olympics, gymnastics. They had like a late model race on Mav TV. They had Daytona 500. I mean, they had all kind of stuff on this tv, just everywhere around. So we got into town and me and Lindsay had to get ready because. [01:07:35] Speaker C: We just had been driving all day. [01:07:39] Speaker B: So while she got ready, we got there at three or 330, something like that, right before the race came on at four. So we both made us a couple of drinks, hung out and watched the first part of the world. We were getting ready and watched the first part of the race at the hotel. And then we go from the hotel to Blue Moose. [01:07:57] Speaker C: Blue Moose. [01:07:58] Speaker B: We're watching the race and the race is on tv, but I don't have sound, so I have the sound on my phone. My phone's sitting there and have the sound so I can hear the sound on my phone. [01:08:07] Speaker C: And they were like, pretty synced up. [01:08:09] Speaker B: So did that. [01:08:10] Speaker C: And then we were at Blue Moose. [01:08:13] Speaker B: For a long time. We were just hanging out, drinking some beers, having a good time. And we get back and it was like a couple of laps to go. And we get back where we were at was only like 4 minutes from the house. And we go and we get back. [01:08:27] Speaker C: In the condo with like three to go for the 500 timing with three to go. [01:08:35] Speaker B: We didn't even see the last lap. Didn't happen. So it was like two to. We got. I literally came like the last two laps in the hotel room. [01:08:41] Speaker C: And then the xfinity race came on, like right after that. So that was how the Daytona 500 went down for me. [01:08:49] Speaker B: I watched it in like three different places. [01:08:51] Speaker A: Yeah, but I got to leaving your. [01:08:54] Speaker C: Place and got straight home. [01:08:56] Speaker A: And once we got home, we just went, picked up the dog, grabbed Allison's bike that she decided she wanted to build during the middle of the 500. And I was like, normally I'd help you, but I can't be of service at the moment. [01:09:08] Speaker C: I'm preoccupied. [01:09:09] Speaker A: And we cooked steaks and asparagus, had. [01:09:12] Speaker C: A good old meal. It was awesome. [01:09:14] Speaker A: We just came back home and enjoyed. [01:09:16] Speaker C: The hell out of it. [01:09:17] Speaker A: And yes, watch the most disappointing 500 finish I think I've ever seen. It's just wild technicality of the rules. [01:09:25] Speaker C: There, how it all kind of shook out. [01:09:27] Speaker A: Nothing really you could have done there. I know a lot of people are complaining that the caution wasn't called in time. [01:09:32] Speaker C: It's like dog, it's so damn fast paced. I mean, you can say what you want. It just was what it was. Willie B get his 500 win and. [01:09:43] Speaker A: It'S still going to be a dangerous team this year. [01:09:45] Speaker C: 24 team is going to be fast. They haven't lost it yet, so still coming, still going. [01:09:52] Speaker A: And I think they're going to have. [01:09:53] Speaker C: Another hell of a year. [01:09:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:55] Speaker C: William Byron ceiling is very high. [01:09:58] Speaker B: I think for NASCAR. It is extremely. I'm trying to think of someone who he reminds me of, but I don't know if I have one off the top of my head. But he is a good NASCAR driver. [01:10:10] Speaker C: He just gets NASCAR racing very well. And he is going to like, man. [01:10:18] Speaker A: My best comparison for him right now. [01:10:21] Speaker C: Is he's driving for Hendrix. [01:10:23] Speaker A: He's a great race car driver, but his personality is fine. There's nothing wrong with him necessarily. He reminds me a lot of Jimmy Johnson. [01:10:31] Speaker C: He just wins a shitload every time you win. [01:10:34] Speaker A: You're just. [01:10:34] Speaker B: High comparison there. [01:10:35] Speaker A: Well, I mean, more for, like, the week to week feel of just like. [01:10:39] Speaker C: He goes out there, he runs well. [01:10:41] Speaker A: If he wins the race, you're just. [01:10:42] Speaker C: Like, all right, that was a race. [01:10:45] Speaker B: That was one of the races I've seen. [01:10:47] Speaker A: That's one of the races I've seen. But talk about a good compliment for a guy, though, is you expect him. [01:10:53] Speaker B: To run up front. [01:10:54] Speaker A: You expect HIM to get wins. And when he does win, it's LiKE, well, I expected. [01:10:58] Speaker C: MEan, I don't think he's going to run BAd. So it's just. [01:11:01] Speaker A: I don't know. I can't get fired up ABout it, but I'm not disappointed by it. [01:11:04] Speaker C: JUST is what it is. [01:11:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's my. [01:11:07] Speaker C: DON'T. [01:11:08] Speaker B: I don't hate a William Byron win. Like, I like a William Byron win, but I'm not, like, doing backflips off the porch about a William Byron. [01:11:15] Speaker A: Nothing WRong with THAt, man. He's going to get a bunch of them. We're going to have a whole lot of races. We don't do backflips on. He's going to have a great season. And the expectation is there. It's almost Just QUIETLY there. [01:11:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:11:28] Speaker B: That's who Megan has picked as her favorite driver. She bought a William Byron hat that was really badass. It's kind of blue like this, but. [01:11:38] Speaker C: The bill was like. I want to say the bill is. [01:11:41] Speaker B: Like a bright pink color. And this was like neon. [01:11:44] Speaker C: EVen MOre brighter neon than this. [01:11:46] Speaker B: DAMN, it looked awesome. And she had an awesome raptor William Byron t shirt. [01:11:53] Speaker C: Nice. I was going to tell you, there. [01:11:56] Speaker B: Is a blaney hat, dude. And I saw a couple, only two people that had it on, but they. [01:12:01] Speaker C: Had it for sale at the. It is. It is LIKE, it's not the same. [01:12:09] Speaker B: Colors as the menards CAR, but it's, LiKe, bright LiKe the menards CAR. And it says, I think RYAN's WRITten incursive. And then Blaney's in big letters, like, right across the front, but it was. [01:12:20] Speaker C: Like, this bright red pinkish color. [01:12:25] Speaker B: And then, like, I want to say. [01:12:27] Speaker C: Like, a greenish color, and the Hat. [01:12:29] Speaker B: Looks so I can't. I was on the verge of, like, would caleb love this, or would he think it was stupid as fuck? I can't tell if I'm a HARD one to get. [01:12:40] Speaker A: NAScar merch for sure. [01:12:41] Speaker B: I couldn't tell. But it was kind of like this hat, just, like, very loud hat. You know what I mean? [01:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah. And the writing, like, if the hat. [01:12:49] Speaker B: Was, like, that reddish pink color, like, the writing was in, like, green, I. [01:12:53] Speaker C: Think the bill was green. Like I said, I only saw two people wearing it, but it was a damn good looking hat. [01:12:59] Speaker B: And I will say I am loving. And it's in. Larson has them. Obviously, Byron has them. [01:13:05] Speaker C: William Byron has them. Byron and Ryan Blaney has them. But the guys that are doing these. [01:13:12] Speaker B: Hats that are not their typical colors, and Larson's doing these hats now where he's doing, like, race day hats, and they only have, like, 150 available each race. [01:13:22] Speaker A: Damn. [01:13:22] Speaker B: And last year, everywhere he went, they had, like, the state flag on the. [01:13:26] Speaker C: Side of the hat. [01:13:27] Speaker B: And I saw people having those. There's a guy from Nashville, like, had Tennessee when I saw. And maybe someone had the Texas flag on there. And the fronts just have, like, Hendrick motorsports or whatever, and then it's got the five, and then it's got the flag on it. [01:13:42] Speaker C: But he posted this year, he was like, we're going to do a little. [01:13:46] Speaker B: Bit more wild and crazy stuff for the hats. So me and Megan both got one, and they only make 150. You're only allowed to buy one per person. So people don't go buy 100 of them and then sell them. [01:13:58] Speaker A: Sell them online for $500 a pop. [01:14:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:01] Speaker B: So I think it's really cool that he's doing that. But the one for this last week was, like, the hat was, like, kind of bluish, like this hat, and the writing was, like, bubblegum pink. So that said Hendrickars.com right here. And the five on the side is, like, bubblegum pink, and it looks like it's, like, dripping something off of the. [01:14:22] Speaker C: So, like, between those guys, I don't. [01:14:24] Speaker B: Know how much they all have involved in their merch, but those hats, like. [01:14:30] Speaker C: I said, those three, blaney, Byron and. [01:14:34] Speaker B: Larson, I think Elliot had some, too, but they're just doing some really cool hats. [01:14:40] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to make the merch look good because it gets people's attention. It makes people want to wear it more. It gives you more of an identity. [01:14:47] Speaker B: Totally. [01:14:47] Speaker C: And it's not really cool. [01:14:49] Speaker A: Guys, I've never been the biggest fan of the super loud, kind of 90s. [01:14:54] Speaker C: Early 2000s NASCAR style. [01:14:56] Speaker A: I know that's probably going to get me a lot of hate online. It just is what it is. I don't like the super loud stuff. I don't want a bunch of stuff. [01:15:02] Speaker C: On the front of my shirt. [01:15:04] Speaker A: I'm a fan of the stuff that's on the back of the shirt, and I know every NASCAR fan in the. [01:15:09] Speaker C: World disagrees with me on that. [01:15:10] Speaker A: Fight me about it. [01:15:11] Speaker C: Don't care. [01:15:12] Speaker A: But they're finally coming out with stuff that's really freaking neat, and it's clean. [01:15:18] Speaker C: And it's cool and it's modern, and. [01:15:20] Speaker A: It'S not afraid to be different from. [01:15:22] Speaker C: The old school style. And it's breaking out a little bit. [01:15:25] Speaker A: And I really like that about the. [01:15:27] Speaker C: New NASCAR merch that's coming out. Yeah. [01:15:29] Speaker A: And it gets me wearing more of it because it's just easier for me. [01:15:32] Speaker C: To find things that I like. [01:15:34] Speaker A: And it's not like every single driver has the same stuff, just with a different amount of crap on it. [01:15:39] Speaker B: Yeah, there was a time there where. [01:15:40] Speaker C: Every single shirt was the same. [01:15:43] Speaker B: It just had the different colors and drivers on it. But now there's, like, a huge variety. [01:15:48] Speaker C: Like, every shirt looks like their shirt. [01:15:52] Speaker B: You know what I mean? Which is really cool. I thought this was. [01:15:57] Speaker C: I bought Lindsay. [01:15:59] Speaker B: She's a Denny Hamlin fan. [01:16:01] Speaker C: So they had two Denny shirts that. [01:16:03] Speaker B: I thought were awesome. They had a Denny shirt that was for sale. Like, literally just for the clash win that had, like, the coliseum on it, the trophy, like, him and victory lane. Like, the shirt looked cool. They had, like, a shirt win for that. [01:16:16] Speaker C: And then they had a shirt that has, like, denny on the front. [01:16:20] Speaker B: All it has is, like, denny up top, and then Hammond on the bottom. It says three time Daytona 500 champion. It's got the years on it and on the back. [01:16:28] Speaker C: So the front of the shirt looks old school. [01:16:31] Speaker B: Like, it looks like the FedEx cars. [01:16:33] Speaker C: That he drove when he won those races. Like, the black. [01:16:38] Speaker B: I think he was still driving that car when you were watching the black base. Black. Okay, so the front kind of gives you that vibe. Lindsay actually thought it was, like an old shirt, but it was like a. [01:16:47] Speaker C: Brand new Denny shirt. [01:16:48] Speaker A: She's like, new shirt because it was. [01:16:50] Speaker B: On sale and I was. No, no. This is, like, one of their main ones they had up there. So the front kind of looks like that, but then you flip around on the back, and it's still about the. [01:16:58] Speaker C: Daytona stuff, but it has his car for this season on it. [01:17:02] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:17:02] Speaker B: Like this paint job, like, the style of car, the paint job they have for this year, the Fedex car. And I thought that was a really cool twist to twist in the new and old school thing. [01:17:13] Speaker C: Literally on the same shirt. [01:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that was really cool. RFK's merch is incredible. [01:17:19] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:17:20] Speaker B: The shirts they have, like, doing the winter shirts that they're doing, like, the back to back shirts they did for. [01:17:27] Speaker A: Those. [01:17:28] Speaker B: Those are incredible. [01:17:29] Speaker C: And I made a joke to Brandon. [01:17:32] Speaker B: I can't remember last year before last. [01:17:34] Speaker C: But they had, like, two RFK hats. [01:17:36] Speaker B: Like, every race I went to, and. [01:17:38] Speaker C: They were just like some dad ball. [01:17:40] Speaker B: Caps from some shit. It was literally two hat. [01:17:44] Speaker C: It was terrible. [01:17:45] Speaker B: And I was like, dude, what is up with y'all's hat situation? [01:17:48] Speaker C: And now you go into. [01:17:52] Speaker B: They have their own. A big section now in the Ford. There's like a couple Ford drivers. I can't remember who's all in this one Ford trailer. They have a big section and they. [01:18:03] Speaker C: Had, like, a few rows of hats. [01:18:05] Speaker B: And their new era hats. So I was like, hell, yeah. [01:18:09] Speaker A: Stepping up the game. [01:18:11] Speaker B: The RFK hat game has stepped up. [01:18:14] Speaker C: Then. [01:18:14] Speaker B: Did you see where the 47 hat company is doing all a bunch of shirts and hats for everybody? [01:18:20] Speaker A: No, I think I missed that one. Coming through. [01:18:22] Speaker B: They're doing that. And our boy Randy Adams. Randy Adams at the race. I saw Randy. We took a picture. It was great to see him. He was rocking the new Chris Busher. The 47 style hat. 47 is a big college football. [01:18:36] Speaker C: They do college football merch and the. [01:18:39] Speaker B: Hats look just hell. It's awesome. They got the big trucker style thing. Not like big, like the new era, but it's like up real pointed looking. [01:18:51] Speaker A: I know exactly what you're talking about. [01:18:53] Speaker B: And, like, yeah, big block. Block letters isn't right. I'll try to show you a picture. But the hats just look. They look great. [01:18:59] Speaker C: They don't fit my head because I. [01:19:00] Speaker B: Got a big old ass head and I got to wear the new era. I wear the run into that problem. [01:19:05] Speaker A: All the dang time. [01:19:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Caleb's head is like, his head's long this way. [01:19:09] Speaker A: Yeah, my head's straight from my nose to the back of my head. It's probably the longest length that anybody has ever claimed before. [01:19:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. But I don't know if you would dig the hats to wear them either. But they look cool. Like the hat looks. [01:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it's tough for me to sometimes find a good one that fits me right. Everybody makes these damn small ass hats. Honestly, if you're a hat company out there, why the heck do some of these hats feel like a little Yamaka I'm wearing on the top of my head? [01:19:34] Speaker B: I can't even get it. [01:19:35] Speaker A: Grab my head. If I turn my head way up here. [01:19:38] Speaker C: Yeah. If I turn my head fast enough. [01:19:40] Speaker A: The whole hat spins on my head. [01:19:41] Speaker C: Yep. [01:19:41] Speaker B: We were in hauler. It was like the. I want to say I had all the junior motorsport stuff and like legacy stuff in there as well. I can't remember who's all in what. [01:19:51] Speaker C: Hauler, but there was a lady. [01:19:54] Speaker B: She was standing up there and I finally found. I've been looking online for one of my style hats that I wear. The old earns heart hats they had. And I wanted the solid black one, but they didn't have the black one in my style. They had it in the little golf. It's called the golfer style with the rope. It's like real small, too. But they had a white one. So I was like, I got to get this. And I was like, is that had a 950? And she walked over and looked at it and she said, yeah. And then I've also been wanting a Dell Jr. Sundrop hat because I ordered one of those online and it came, Maddox can suck my ass. [01:20:28] Speaker C: They sent me the wrong hat and. [01:20:31] Speaker B: I think ended up giving that hat to PJ north, actually. Yeah, I think you did somebody. [01:20:35] Speaker A: I remember that getting that hat. [01:20:36] Speaker B: But I finally bought the same hat, but in the style that I like in the 950. And the lady comes over, she's like, wow, you really know your hats, don't you? I was like, well, got this big ass head, and I can only wear one kind, so I know what kind I can wear. [01:20:47] Speaker A: Yeah, you just got to get used to it. Know what one it is. [01:20:50] Speaker B: So, yeah, I don't know how I got off on merch, on all that, but NASCAR bonus is looking solid. [01:20:56] Speaker C: Hell yeah. It's all about it. [01:20:58] Speaker A: One other note I want to throw out about Atlanta. I know we're kind of bouncing around. [01:21:02] Speaker C: But xfinity race, that was boring as hell. [01:21:06] Speaker A: Can't stand it. It just is what it was. It was single file all the way to the end. Sorry about your bad luck, Jesse love. You should have won that race. The 21 knew it. And everybody's all, I think he's come out. He's made a very good impression on everybody's. Two front row starts in a row. [01:21:20] Speaker C: And here he is running up front. [01:21:22] Speaker B: Of the very slaps of the Bush of Xfinity series. [01:21:28] Speaker A: Great start to his season. It sucks that he runs out of gas right there at the end. I mean, what else can you do? You get all the way to the damn end. [01:21:34] Speaker B: I'm just going to say I agree with what Jeff Gluck said. When Jesse loves like, I saved you enough gas, I saved you enough gas. [01:21:41] Speaker C: It's like, how do you know this. [01:21:43] Speaker B: Is only your second ever race in one of these cars? You're great and you're doing great, but I'm not going to give you that. That you know how much gas that you saved. [01:21:54] Speaker A: Maybe he just had a little bit of extra confidence there. He had extra confidence, I'm going to make. [01:21:59] Speaker B: It was the front car the whole time. Everyone knows the front car can't save as much every car. [01:22:04] Speaker C: Back you go, the more gas you can save. [01:22:07] Speaker B: Which is why it worked out perfect for Austin Hill. [01:22:09] Speaker C: He's running like 7th or 8th. [01:22:11] Speaker B: That whole last run through that. The stars align. [01:22:16] Speaker C: Perfect for Austin Hill. They really just. [01:22:19] Speaker A: I don't know how he does it every week. [01:22:21] Speaker B: If I would have been Jesse loves crew chief, I would have been like. [01:22:24] Speaker C: One, I don't believe you because you. [01:22:26] Speaker B: Don'T necessarily know what you're doing yet. And two, you've been in front the whole entire race. I know you can't save that much gas. [01:22:33] Speaker C: I was mind blown when they left him out there. [01:22:36] Speaker B: I couldn't believe it. [01:22:37] Speaker A: I think it was just either we're going to the back or we're going to run out of gas and go to the back anyway. So screw it. Let's just give it a shot, see what happens. You got to be there at the. [01:22:46] Speaker C: End to win it and you can. [01:22:48] Speaker A: Come down pit road all you want. I don't know. It's a tough call to make. [01:22:51] Speaker B: It was a terrible, it always will be terrible as in like, I would hate to be in that mean, it. [01:22:57] Speaker C: Ended up, I think, Chandler Smith, he. [01:23:01] Speaker B: Pitted and got second. I mean, the whole inside line dropped like flies. [01:23:05] Speaker C: Like every one of them. [01:23:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It was wild right there at the end, just watching them, just everybody dropping off because they were running out of gas. That part of it was exciting, but you had to wait till the very end for it to get fun. [01:23:15] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. The race was can't. I don't know. If you blame that on Atlanta, blame that on the fuel saving, blame that on the car. I don't know. [01:23:23] Speaker A: I think designed for that next gen car. And that Xfinity car just doesn't drive the same on it. [01:23:28] Speaker B: And that's fine with, like, if that's what it is, that's fine. [01:23:31] Speaker C: But it wasn't good. [01:23:34] Speaker B: And people started shitting on you, Atlanta. And I was like, I won't be hearing that. I won't be hearing none of that right now. [01:23:41] Speaker A: No, not at all. It's obvious that when they redesigned that track, they designed it for the brand new car. They designed it for the brand new fan. [01:23:49] Speaker C: They designed it just to push the. [01:23:51] Speaker A: Boundaries all the way around. And Xfinity is definitely a toe dipped. [01:23:54] Speaker C: In the past in a ways. [01:23:55] Speaker A: And so it doesn't race as good. But that's not the point. It's incredible. [01:24:00] Speaker C: You should get that on a shirt. [01:24:02] Speaker A: I should bet that on my headstone, too. [01:24:04] Speaker B: Xfinity series. A toe dip in the past. That is exactly what the Xfinity series is. [01:24:10] Speaker A: It feels great to watch it. And not every race can be good. Just welcome to life. Sometimes it sucks. [01:24:17] Speaker C: Get over it. And the expenditure race might not have. [01:24:21] Speaker A: Been that great, but I guarantee you they'll go out next week. They'll have a phenomenal race. [01:24:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:24:25] Speaker B: Las Vegas, they'll run. Incredible. [01:24:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:24:29] Speaker A: And then one other note is the truck race. [01:24:31] Speaker C: Holy hell. [01:24:32] Speaker A: Did they redeem themselves in my eyes? I know you're not as necessarily worried. [01:24:35] Speaker C: About it, but I think the truck race definitely, they found a way to hold their damn selves together. [01:24:43] Speaker A: Reckham Raja didn't do anything crazy this week. [01:24:46] Speaker C: And Matt Crafton is hilarious in any interview he does. Not because I like Matt Crafton, but. [01:24:53] Speaker A: Just because he's just enough of an. [01:24:54] Speaker C: Asshole that sometimes I'm like, damn, you're an asshole. [01:24:57] Speaker A: And sometimes I'm like, damn, you're an asshole. [01:24:59] Speaker C: But you're right. [01:25:00] Speaker A: And watching him do a pre race. [01:25:01] Speaker C: Interview, talking about was. [01:25:04] Speaker A: It was one of those moments. I was like, damn, you're an asshole. [01:25:06] Speaker C: But you're right. [01:25:07] Speaker A: And it was fun to listen to him because you could tell he's probably been getting on to all these young guys that were doing dumb stuff, dumb shit. [01:25:13] Speaker C: Last week. [01:25:14] Speaker A: And they held it together this week. [01:25:16] Speaker C: At a really tough racetrack. Managed to make it an entertaining race. I enjoyed it from top to bottom. So go truck series. [01:25:23] Speaker A: I know we rag you all a lot. [01:25:26] Speaker B: You pulled one off. I was going to say this before the race or before the pod? And I was like, I'll save it for the pod. [01:25:31] Speaker C: So I did not win a single. [01:25:35] Speaker B: Cup series bet yesterday. I had winning. [01:25:38] Speaker A: Neither did I. [01:25:39] Speaker B: Not winning. I had a top five bet on. [01:25:41] Speaker C: Corey Lajoy that paid like $50 on. [01:25:44] Speaker B: A $5 bet for him to finish top five. And then I had Brad K and Larson to win, and those three son of a bitches wrecked the five six, and the seven wrecked together. [01:25:54] Speaker A: All three together. [01:25:55] Speaker B: I was like, oh, you shit me. I was like, that was it right there. I had a busher bet, and his race was up and down the whole time. And then once he got into it with the 22 early on in that first stage, I was like, it was over. And the only other bet that I had left was McDowell top five, which hung on to the end. I think he ended up finishing 10th at the end. I was like, okay, he still has. [01:26:17] Speaker C: He almost got it. [01:26:20] Speaker A: But I had a Justin Haley top. [01:26:23] Speaker C: Ten that I am frustrated about that didn't hit. [01:26:25] Speaker B: Damn. [01:26:27] Speaker A: I don't know where he finished, but he was running top ten almost the entire. [01:26:31] Speaker B: I don't know where he finished, but I did see a thing. Both Rick Ware cars finished in the top 20 for the first time ever. [01:26:38] Speaker C: Or something like that. [01:26:39] Speaker A: Damn, Rick Ware. [01:26:41] Speaker B: They're doing good stuff. We've praised them. I'm not going to keep doing it, but we've said it already. They are running better. They're going to run better, and it's. [01:26:49] Speaker C: Already looking up for them with what they're doing. [01:26:53] Speaker B: But I was going to say I put one bet in on the truck series race, and it was Kyle Bush to win. Hit that. I put two bets in on the. [01:27:01] Speaker C: Bush series race, and Austin Hill was one of them, and he won. [01:27:05] Speaker B: So I won my money. I didn't lose any money this week. I literally broke even. [01:27:09] Speaker C: Exactly. [01:27:10] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:27:11] Speaker C: I put $50 between the races, and. [01:27:15] Speaker B: I put 40 on the cup, and then two, five bets on the others, and both of those wins won you, like, 20 something dollars apiece. [01:27:24] Speaker C: So I was like, hey, those two wins saved me. [01:27:27] Speaker B: That's why I wasn't too mad that Austin Hill won the. I wasn't mad at all that Austin Hill won the Xfinity race, and everybody ran out of game. [01:27:33] Speaker C: Can't be, man. [01:27:35] Speaker A: My closest thing I had to winning was a Ryan Blaney winner bet. [01:27:39] Speaker B: You came in three thousandths of a second. [01:27:42] Speaker A: I know, man. Just as close as you can possibly get to winning your bet and not getting it. I mean, on that camera view that they show the start finish line, it's. [01:27:53] Speaker C: Not even the solid color of the cars. [01:27:56] Speaker A: It's the next frame bleeding in that shows you that Daniel Suarez's nose. It was so close that it took. [01:28:01] Speaker C: A camera edit to. [01:28:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it was figure out who. Dude, just so frustrating, but so fun to watch. I'm just like Ryan, where it's like. [01:28:09] Speaker C: You know what you don't ever get. [01:28:11] Speaker A: If you're going to lose, lose as close as you possibly can to winning. [01:28:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:28:16] Speaker B: If that would have happened, that would have been the third Ryan Blaney win. [01:28:20] Speaker C: That I'd seen in person, which would. [01:28:22] Speaker B: Have been the most of anyone by. [01:28:23] Speaker C: Far, which is hilarious. [01:28:25] Speaker A: That just works out sometimes that way. [01:28:27] Speaker B: Which I usually only get to go to plate track. So where Blaney is number one at is plate track. So I have a good chance of seeing a blaney win when I go to a race. [01:28:34] Speaker A: Yeah. And he never lets you sit down until the freaking race is over and probably until they're coming out of turn two on the cooldown lap, because they don't even know who won it yet until then. [01:28:42] Speaker B: I sent you that thing this morning. The guy said they should start calling Blaney the cameraman, and once you see it, you remember all the finishes. But just thinking about it, this man has been involved in, like, six photo. [01:28:56] Speaker C: Finishes in his Cup Series career. Yeah. [01:28:59] Speaker A: Between Daytona, Paladaga and Atlanta. Now he is just all over insane, dude. [01:29:03] Speaker B: I'm talking about he is winning and losing races by this much. Blaine could probably if, say, he won all six of those, plus what he's got now. [01:29:11] Speaker C: I think he's got ten wins now. [01:29:14] Speaker B: I mean, he could have, like, 1617 wins if he won all those races that he's missed. That has been that close. [01:29:23] Speaker C: Yeah. So Blaney is, like, within a freaking. [01:29:27] Speaker B: Thousandth of a second of being, like, almost a 20 time winner in a Cup Series. [01:29:31] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. His margin of victory is probably the smallest. It's crazy if you averaged them out. [01:29:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:29:37] Speaker A: Probably the smallest margin of victory for anybody with ten plus wins in the history of NASCAR. It's crazy. [01:29:44] Speaker B: He knows that, too, because he said he's like, I've won close ones and I've lost close ones, so I can't be mad. [01:29:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:29:50] Speaker A: If you're going to win them by close margin, you got to be ready to lose them by close margin, too. [01:29:54] Speaker B: I also saw another stat of all the close finishes at Atlanta, which has been, like, eight of them that have been super duper close. Every single one of them has been won by the car on the outside. [01:30:06] Speaker C: Damn. [01:30:07] Speaker B: So if you're Atlanta, get ready to run the outside lane if you're coming. [01:30:11] Speaker C: To the checkered nothing like it. [01:30:14] Speaker A: Well, here we are, an hour and a half in and I can keep talking about it for days, but we got to wrap it up eventually. [01:30:21] Speaker C: Well, we will see. [01:30:24] Speaker A: We haven't gone over hack of the week yet, and I told you one that I thought at the beginning. But you know what? I think I've changed my mind. Unless you have a good idea of. [01:30:31] Speaker C: Your hack of the week. [01:30:33] Speaker B: I'll be honest, hack of the week has not crossed my mind again. [01:30:36] Speaker C: I know I'm being. [01:30:40] Speaker B: I didn't have one the other week either. I'll say if I got one to think about. Since it was super popular. The only one I could think of between the last two races was that move that old Reckham Raja made in the truck race that Bubba Wallace and. [01:30:54] Speaker C: Him were talking about. Oh yeah, that was pretty dumb. That was pretty dumb. [01:30:59] Speaker A: But I will give it to race day. Had it featured on their pre race. [01:31:06] Speaker C: Thing for the Truck series at Atlanta. [01:31:08] Speaker A: And they did a great job of holding themselves back because between bodine and everybody else that was up there, I. [01:31:16] Speaker C: Just can't remember everybody that was there. They were having to hold back so. [01:31:21] Speaker A: Many words that you could tell they wanted to say because they just wanted. [01:31:24] Speaker C: To rag on them so hard for how messy that truck race was at Daytona. [01:31:30] Speaker A: But Jamie McMurray, I believe was the one who showed the camera, zoomed in. [01:31:36] Speaker C: On Raja's hands and I'll at least. [01:31:38] Speaker A: Give it to him. He was turned the other way. [01:31:41] Speaker C: He wasn't trying to go to that other pulling. He was trying to pull his truck back underneath him. But it's just the inexperience of everybody there. [01:31:50] Speaker A: It was something he probably could have. [01:31:51] Speaker C: Avoided by doing a couple of moves before that. But still, I still call him Recham. [01:31:57] Speaker A: Raja because that's just too fun not to reckon. [01:32:01] Speaker B: Insane. Ross Chastain, off the chain. [01:32:04] Speaker A: Off the chain. [01:32:06] Speaker B: Messed it up off the chain. [01:32:08] Speaker A: Ross Chastain. [01:32:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:09] Speaker C: Those are the two great games so. [01:32:12] Speaker B: Far, the first two or three weeks in the year. Also, one more stat. I just thought about this that I've seen multiple times this morning. For the first time ever, a manufacturer has won all six races in the. [01:32:26] Speaker C: First Trucks Xfinity cup. Edit Daytona trucks Xfinity Cup. Chevrolet won all six for the first. [01:32:35] Speaker B: Time ever that has ever happened. [01:32:37] Speaker C: That is crazy. [01:32:38] Speaker A: What a wild. [01:32:39] Speaker C: I was like, holy shit. Just winning like hell. [01:32:42] Speaker A: Coming there at the end too, every single time. [01:32:44] Speaker C: Just unbelievable. [01:32:45] Speaker B: Kind of like the last several years with championships. [01:32:49] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. Say sometimes you just got to be. [01:32:52] Speaker C: There at the end. Anybody? [01:32:54] Speaker A: How you race in the middle. My hack of the week is anybody who fat fingered the no button on Jeff Galux. [01:32:59] Speaker C: Cole. [01:32:59] Speaker A: That's Jeff Galux. [01:33:00] Speaker B: I agree with that. [01:33:01] Speaker C: Get your aim underneath you. [01:33:03] Speaker A: Stop missing shit. We know it was better than 95%. [01:33:06] Speaker C: And if you're not voting yes, you're. [01:33:08] Speaker A: Probably a blaney or a Bush fan. And honestly, probably more Bush fans than. [01:33:11] Speaker C: Anything because they seem like the type. [01:33:14] Speaker A: That would complain about something like that. [01:33:15] Speaker B: I just don't know how if you say I am a NASCAR fan, how. [01:33:20] Speaker C: You could be like, that was not. [01:33:22] Speaker B: One of the coolest things I've ever seen. [01:33:23] Speaker C: From first lap to lap 360 or. [01:33:26] Speaker B: However many they run. [01:33:27] Speaker C: Yeah, 260, I think. Yeah. [01:33:30] Speaker B: Whatever it is is just. [01:33:32] Speaker C: If you didn't like that. [01:33:35] Speaker B: Don'T even watch. [01:33:37] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:33:38] Speaker C: Well, I think that's all I got in me. [01:33:42] Speaker B: But hour and a half, baby. Let's go. [01:33:43] Speaker A: Hour and a half is a good time. Atlanta is a good time. I can't wait for the first playoff race of the season now. [01:33:49] Speaker C: Day after your wedding, I think, golly. [01:33:53] Speaker A: I'm going to be hungover that Monday. [01:33:55] Speaker B: Let me see you get married on September 7. [01:33:59] Speaker C: Yes, the race is on September eigth. [01:34:02] Speaker A: Damn, that's going to be a hell of a time. [01:34:04] Speaker C: So you know what that means? [01:34:05] Speaker A: We're going to plan on watching it all together and then it's going to rain it out and it's going to happen on Monday. [01:34:09] Speaker B: Yeah. I was like, this is going to be the same exact situation as the 500. [01:34:15] Speaker A: Yeah, that'll probably be Martin Shrek's first victory on a drafting track. [01:34:18] Speaker C: Then after that, Monday, Martin. [01:34:21] Speaker A: All right, well, you can catch us online at raise rowdy racing. Everywhere you can look except for Twitter. We are RZD rowdy race, so we don't post a lot there, but every. [01:34:29] Speaker C: Now and then you'll get a zinger. [01:34:31] Speaker A: I'm Caleb Conrouty on all platforms and Dolph music. [01:34:35] Speaker B: I don't know if y'all can hear Ram. She's going town in there right now. [01:34:38] Speaker C: There's a dude riding back up the road. [01:34:40] Speaker A: That is at Ramsey Jewel on Instagram. Ramsey Jewel everywhere you find her, don't forget to follow raised rowdy on all platforms. Thank you to Nikki T and Matt Burrell for helping us out with this thing. Ike, also thank you for all the. [01:34:53] Speaker C: Help that you provide. [01:34:55] Speaker A: And Randy Adams, you're still a badass. [01:34:57] Speaker C: Keep wearing cool hats and we will. [01:35:00] Speaker B: Randy, is good to see you this weekend. I reiterate everything Caleb said we couldn't do this without Nikki. T. Burrell and Ike, they throw together. Ike throws together the social media and the COVID pictures, whatever you call that, for Spotify. And all know he throws those together. [01:35:19] Speaker C: In freaking 2 minutes, 5 seconds or less. [01:35:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it's incredible. We're trying to grow this thing. We're having a great time doing it. [01:35:27] Speaker C: So thank you all for listening. Hell, yeah. [01:35:31] Speaker A: Appreciate y'all if you made it this far. We love you, and we will talk at y'all next week after Vegas. [01:35:36] Speaker B: Deuces, deuce. [01:35:49] Speaker C: A monte carlo and my truck ain't painted black it ain't got a big white number three turning left around a track but you can hear me coming from a mile and a half away these good years can't handle dirt don't need no 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 checkers record my foot hammered on the gas I'm making my way to you, girl earn hard bath.