NASCAR Fans Are Hating Bubba Wallace For The Wrong Reasons! |The High Line Episode 158 FULL EPISODE!

Bubba Wallace wins the 2025 Brickyard 400 on Sunday to get his 3rd career win and lock himself into the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs! Hosts Trent Davis & Riley Embree breakdown everything from Indy and more! Austin Hill wrecked Aric Almirola in the Xfinity race on Saturday and got suspended one race by NASCAR late Tuesday afternoon. Was this the right call? NASCAR will be racing on a Naval Base next year in San Diego. Do the guys like this? In RTT this week the guys talk about the Stewart Friesen injury, the truck and xfinity races, Denny’s new deal, no new playoff format?, and TNT coverage grade for 2025! The guys hand out their “Attaboy” and “YOU CAN’T DO THAT!” moments from Indy which you have to stick around and hear! Iowa Speedway is this weekend so the guys preview the race and who will get the win in the 2nd ever race in the Corn State?

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Welcome back to the High Line Podcast. Hit that button. Yeah, let’s go. You can’t do that. I can’t get it right. Shut the up and let me talk. I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. You’re only young, but you’re going to die. Proceed to party. Oh, are you ready? Rally. What did he say? Go Tigers. That’s incorrect. Go Cox. I think that might be the best one we’ve ever done. That was good. I like that. [Music] I don’t know what they’re talking about. Bubba’s making his own decisions. This thing that he found ain’t going to bring him down. He’s like a junkie without an addiction. Denny don’t cry. He just wants to stay high like like playing with danger and fear. Everybody’s walking, but nobody’s talking. It looks a lot better from here. All my life he’s been over the top. He don’t know what he’s doing. All he knows is he don’t want to stop. All fired up. He’s going to go till he drops. You’re either in or in the way. Just ask Austin Hill. Austin heel don’t make me. He don’t want to stop. 42. Take Drake. Yes. 42 or 43 or something like that. Oh my life. He’s been That’s a baby. That’s a banger. That’s like his last good song. Yeah. That’s That’s 2007. Yeah. I don’t know what I’m doing. All I know is I don’t want to stop. You’re either in or in the way. Cuz that’s Alkin. Austin. Austin. Whoever Austin is. Yeah, I remember Austin Hill. You can ask Eric. Eric was in the way apparently. Yes. That would have fit either Austin or Eric. Yes. Probably been easier to say Eric, but he was in the way. He was big time in the way. But uh yeah, welcome back to the High Line episode 158. Trent Davis and Raleigh Embry back at you with the action. Post Indianapolis. Thank god it’s post, not pre. Yeah, that was a rough one on on Sunday. Uh for multiple reasons. Uh we’ll get that here in a minute. But yeah, [ __ ] Did my song. Shout out to Azie Osborne. He he passed away. Everybody passed away last week. Him. Hulk Hogan. I wanted a real American. I wanted to do what Hulk Hogan’s theme song, but I could fight for the rights of every man. Yeah. It didn’t really make sense to I couldn’t fit that in the fight for your freedoms. fight for your rights. Yeah. So banger, um the guy from the guy from the Cosby show died. I saw today that um Dr. Ubia Jal or whatever his name is from the Dark Knight Rises. Guy made the nuclear bomb. He died today. Yeah. Now they got his neck broken by Bane. Ren Sandberg died today, too. Hall of Fame Cubs pitcher. Yeah. Like a third baseman. Yeah. Yeah. So just everybody’s dropping left and right. Shout out to uh I think it’s Ryan actually is how you pronounce his name, but had the greatest quote of all time in his Hall of Fame speech. Who do you think you are? I am. Yeah, that’s the greatest quote of all time at a bowling match. But that’s the greatest quote of all time, Pierce. Who do you think you are? I am. He was yelling at a 12-year-old boy, by the way, if you don’t know the uh the story behind that. Um, now Ryan said, uh, something along the lines, and I’m probably going to butcher this, but hit a home run, drop your bat, run around the bases like you’ve been there before. Um, pretty much saying, act like you’ve been there before. And then he goes, there’s some more in there, but then he says, um, the name on the front of the jersey is far more important than the name on the back, which is something that my dad used to always tell me. Um, how many players you think these days? Think about that. None of them. Um, the name Cubs was far more important than than his name across the back of his jersey. And that that’s a quote that I’ve used in the past. So, uh, shout out to to Ryan there. But, uh, um, yeah, everybody’s dropping like flies these days. Everybody’s probably because of this heat. Yeah. Conking out. But, um, Aussie was 152. Um, he’s like 80. Um, which to be fair, how many drugs he probably did back in the day is probably good for a high end. Hulk Hogan was 71 and drugs there too. Um, so and the guy from uh he drowned, didn’t he? Bill Cosby show I think so. Yeah. So I think he’s like in his mid-40s or something. Yeah. Late 40s. That was a that was not a natural death there. But uh yeah, just um you know, not to be morbid or anything, but uh any day above ground’s a good one. And just uh Are you sure about that? I’m starting to question it how hot it is. It’s It’s pretty warm. At least you got air inside now. Yeah, I lost it Sunday. I didn’t have air in or out. How’d my couch sleep? Awful. I slept like an hour. I I slept like Well, you were playing uh Spongebob on my television at like max volume, so that might be why you didn’t get any. They’re not having it at max volume. I didn’t move the volume. Several times. I uh I didn’t move the volume for whatever you were watching it on that TV last. I never touched the volume controls. I was watching Ryan White standup comedy first and then tater salad. Yeah. And then that ended and I couldn’t. I was like, “Oh, [ __ ] I’ll go to Sponge Watch Spongebob. See if I can fall asleep to it.” It didn’t work. Damn shame. Then you’re I about kill your dog. I do that about once a week. Yeah. Um, the reason why I had to sleep on your couch is our AC went out probably about noon Sunday, but didn’t really realize it until it got later in the day. Probably went out noon, probably like 2 or 3:00. Um, in the afternoon while you’re watching the race, started getting a little hot, little hot, a little hotter, a little hotter. And next, you know, we looked at the damn thermostat and it’s 80° and we’re like, “Oh, this ain’t good.” And wouldn’t cut on. It’s like the fourth or fifth time we’ve had AC problems at this neighborhood. So, um, [ __ ] the builders on that. Um, you’ve had problems as well at your house two houses down. So, uh, just a just a [ __ ] storm. Uh, and at the hottest day of the year, it’s just awful. I mean, it got really hot in this house. And obviously my wife didn’t want her sleeping in a air conditioned house here on Sunday. So, sent her to her parents with the animals and I went to your house to sleep on the attempt to sleep on the couch. And uh just a just a rough rough weekend for me. I went down to my farm Saturday and that was a long day. Checked on the trail cameras and I think somebody’s [ __ ] with our trail cameras. Um got some bucks, but nothing crazy to write home about. But yeah, and then I’m been working all week. Um only working three days this week. Took Thursday off. Thursday is my birthday. So um not working on my birthday at least, not four days. So I only got one more day. It’s filming on filming this on a Tuesday night. So, just got one more day of work, then I’m done for eight days. Uh, I need it. Um, trying to catch up on some rest and everything, but um yeah, I’m I’m living. Um, yo, how are you? I’m doing all right. Um, pissed off at myself for some MLB The Show managerial decisions I’ve made. Uh, trying to take my Rockies to the promised land. It’s been a rough rough first couple years of that franchise mode, but we’re we’re making our way making our way up there. Um, you know, I’m uh working tomorrow and and Wednesday, so then I’ll have the weekend off so we can chillax and relax all cool and shoot some Bball outside the school uh this weekend for your birthday. Shoot the Bball. I was singing Fresh Prince theme song. Oh, I was like, man, we need to play Not now. Yeah, a little warm. We’ll wait till [ __ ] uh December to do that. Pretty uh pretty disappointed with some NASCAR stuff going on. Amen, brother. Uh racing’s not been great past couple months, I would say. So, um kind of kind of upset about that. But the good news is I think it’s we only come up four Saturdays away from college football. So, um, uh, yes, week zero. Yeah, we’ll, uh, we’re coming up fast on some the best time of the year. So, uh, South Carolina is going to win national championship this year if you didn’t know. Uh, in Lenor Lenor Sellers is going to win the uh, the Heisman. Sure is, which is actually pretty likely. Um, I wouldn’t say it’s likely, but that definitely is possible. Um, he going to be lucky to win the MVP of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. Uh, we’re probably not going to make a bowl game this year because we’ll lose in the first round of the playoffs. But, um, to who? Oregon. Yeah, Ohio State, Texas, Utah, Louisville, Miami, Rice. The Owls are pretty nasty. Uh, they’re not good as good as uh, North Texas, though. Yeah, we went over this last week. But, uh, I’m still undefeated in season two, though, [ __ ] What? had a two weeks in, four weeks in. Thank you very much. We had I had the greatest touchdown drive of all time in 26 down 24, no 20-7 against North Carolina week one, the Fighting Bill Bichs. Been struggling the whole second half. Had a 17-7 lead on them. They they they bounced back in the second half. I’m driving down there. I I use my last time out about 20 seconds left. I think it’s fourth down. I run with my quarterback or no, it’s third down. I run with my quarterback, get like 12 yards, don’t get enough for the first down. I can’t spike it. It’s fourth and two and I ain’t got no timeouts. It’s like 10 seconds left. I’m like, “Oh, [ __ ] I got those in the end zone.” So, I just do four verts real quick. Throw it, hike it with about six seconds left. Throw it to my slot receiver. Moss is the safety in the end zone. You saw it. Touchdown Owls. One second left. Something about me and my teams winning with one second left on the play clock. You know, 2016 national championship play against uh with your Rice and uh Forver Vert, my guy. I don’t think you have a pick play against four vers. Um undefeated way to do it. You undefeated? No, you gave up a 32-point lead to Arizona State. It wasn’t 32. It was 21. 21. Um cuz you suck. But to be fair, I had three interception and two fumble recoveries in the first half to build that lead. All I hear is excuses. Uh and I got [ __ ] hoed at the end of the game. But um you know, it is what it is. I’m still going to beat Rice uh at the end of the year, week 13. That’ll be easy dub. Uh and I’ll probably go undefeated in the conference. So um probably make the playoffs again because I made the playoffs last year, too. What happened to that game? I played Ohio State. I played Ohio State at Ohio State in the first round of playoffs and I think I lost 58 to nothing. So, was it that bad? 58 to three, something like that. I thought it was like I thought it was 48 to three. 48 to nothing. It was a whole bunch to not very many. That’s all I know. Yes, I put the backup quarterback in halfway through the game. If that tells you anything. Um, yeah, blame the quarterback. I know. I was just trying to get the back up some reps. That’s my team. That’s my quarterback. But anyways, um this is probably more interesting hearing us talk about this than the race was on Sunday. Uh because that race was [ __ ] awful. Um it wasn’t great. I don’t think there was a pass all day on the racetrack. Um not that I saw anyway. Well, we predicted it. It was going to be pretty rough. And it was worse than I thought it was going to be, though. And it was um it was bad. And not Michael Jackson bad. I don’t enjoy the winter, so that makes it worse. And um you see where somebody threw a beer can on a white flag lap? Yeah. Like come on, that’s ridiculous. Nothing picks me up like a beer can. Yeah. Um yeah, that’s kind of dumb. But you know what do you expect? Uh they do it at Kyle Bush and shouldn’t not on a racetrack. Not why it’s still going. I’ve never seen that. I’ve seen them throwund million50 beer cans at Jeff Gordon at Talladega. Jeff Gordon the goat. He was a hell of a throw. It was accurate for going 190 mph. I mean, that was impressive. He needs to be a quarterback. Well, what do you think would have happened if the bearcat would have hit the car? It might have broke. That’s what I’m saying. Kyle Larson wins this race. Could you imagine the [ __ ] the [ __ ] publicity [ __ ] storm that would have come from that? Oh, that’ been awful. I’m very glad that that didn’t happen. No. um which car would have been definitely labeled as racist as a sport. The fans should never affect the outcome of a of a national I mean you shouldn’t throw anything after the race either but if you don’t throw something rather rather you do it after the race than uh while the cars are still going. The only thing that I think you should be able to throw is in baseball if you catch a home run from the opposite team you should throw the ball back. What about in hockey with the hattick [ __ ] Well I mean that’s not going to hurt anybody you know somebody throwing fish and [ __ ] out there. Well, that okay. But you know, okay. Other than hockey by a [ __ ] other than other than traditional hockey stuff. Big ass fin to your face and you got a concussion. You missing the [ __ ] you missing the Sharks game next Tuesday. Well, damn. Well, if I turned it back around, San Jose Sharks with the fish. Funny. Anyway, Indianapolis was this week and um Bubble won obviously we talked about that. Did he? I just found out. Um unfortunately didn’t fail post race inspection, but um and mostly not just because I dislike the guy. I’ve said several times on this podcast he’s been a lot better this year um as far as you know saying stupid [ __ ] and doing stupid [ __ ] but um still not a huge fan of him. Drives for 2311 racing. don’t like most of the Toyota guys obviously. Um and he’s uh he’s battling Chris Busher and and Ryan Priest right now on the cut line. Not anymore. And uh not anymore. Um as you said, he won locked himself in the playoffs. This is his first regular season win ever. Um yep, he won a Kansas race in the playoffs and he ran a Tallaladega race in the playoffs and he’s never won in the regular season. So uh what this is win three uh for him. So I’ve been I’ve been saying it all year. here. I mean, the guy’s fast enough. I’m pretty sure I said it last week on the podcast. It wouldn’t surprise me if if Bubba showed up, won a race. So, um I think you had him in your preseason playoff. Yeah. So, here he is. Um you know, won a race. Doesn’t really surprise me. I know a lot of people kind of are surprised by this win. I’m not. Bubba’s pretty decent here. Um you know, ran okay here last year. Qualified second, ran in the top five pretty much all day. Uh and then his, you know, his pit crew is historically pretty good, too. So, you know, good pit stop on that final pit stop and got out ahead and never looked back. I mean, and and additionally, give credit where credit’s due. I mean, I know it was difficult to pass and, you know, all that and but you know, he had Kyle Larson for two restarts at the end of the race. um hounding on him and no mistakes made, good restarts, smooth starts, didn’t do anything dumb, didn’t throw it away, uh which Bubba has a tendency to do or had had a tendency to do um earlier in his career, you know, give away good good races and didn’t do it and and beat one of the best in the world uh in the process. So, um you know, like I said, give credit where credit is due. Guy deserved to win the race and and um went out and did it. So, um, unfortunately, it just affects me negatively because of my guys and and what I would like to see happen. Uh, but, um, you know, I could I could forgive all that if, uh, it was a good race, but, um, it wasn’t. Um, there wasn’t a pass for the lead all day. I know that for a fact. Other than incident, other than, you know, Rex or Cric 22 blew a tire. Um, so, you know, two two tires got blown from the leaders. Um, both Pinsky cars. Both Pinsky cars, which I think Cric was leading. Might have been second. He might have He was up in the top four. He was up. Yeah, he was up there. I know Joey was lead when he blew. Um, but um Well, he was on the leading strategy. I don’t think Blenny had pitted yet. So, he wasn’t leading the race quite yet. Cendrick or Joey? Joey. So, he wasn’t in first. He was just the leader. He was going to be the leader. Yeah, he was going to be the leader. Well, anyways, um not a pass for for the lead all day on the track. Um which it’s not really surprising, but very disappointing. Um but even that, I mean, usually at most races where you have a guy, you know, the the leader dominate, you’ll still have passing throughout the field, but um it was at least on the broadcast that I watched. I mean, you guys will correct me if I’m wrong, but I didn’t see a ton throughout the field either. You know, other than the few restarts that we had, you know, you had a couple, you know, movers and shakers throughout the, you know, first couple laps of a restart, which you always do. But once it got single file, I mean, it was exactly that single file. And um it’s just it’s unfortunate that that you can’t put on a good race at Indianapolis cuz um you know it’s probably the most famous racetrack in America. Um and you know you would want the racing to be good here. Uh and it’s it’s just it’s just not. And you know, a lot of people consider this a a crown jewel, but nobody’s there to watch it. The TV ratings are probably going to be bad and it’s terrible racing. So, you know, well, to be fair on the nobody was there, it holds over 300,000 sta people. So, [ __ ] That’s true. It’s going to look worse on TV than than it should. But yeah, it’s just cuz the Indy500 is almost always sold out with 300,000 people there. Then a couple months later you go to the NASCAR race and there’s only a 100,000 there. A third full. That’s still a lot of [ __ ] people. That’s true. Um it just looks bad. It’s It feels It would fill up almost every other track in NASCAR other than maybe Bristol, Daytona. I don’t know how many Daytona holds, but Talladega like Yeah, it’s still a lot of people. It just doesn’t look like it. But e either way, I mean, it’s just it’s unfortunate that that track can’t we can’t figure out how to bring a package there to make the racing at least watchable. Uh cuz that race was borderline unwatchable. I mean, it was tough. So, is that the worst race of the year in your opinion? It’s definitely the worst oval race. Um, no question. And it’s there are some some road course races that were better than this. Uh, so it was as far as ovals go, it’s a zero. I mean, it was it’s literally the worst whatever. If you ever talk to somebody about NASCAR that doesn’t like NASCAR and they tell you why they don’t like like NASCAR, it’s because that’s this is what they think NASCAR is. Yeah. Is is what we saw Sunday. And if that was what NASCAR was every week, I [ __ ] wouldn’t watch it either because that’s follow the leader [ __ ] And air is so important. You can’t pass. You can’t get to the guy in front of you. And it’s whoever comes out on the, you know, with the lead on the final pit stop is going to win the race. And and that’s what we saw uh uh on Sunday. And that’s just that’s not racing. Um, and you know, we can we can sit here and debate whether or not, you know, Indie needs to be on the schedule or doesn’t need to be on the schedule or or whatever, but if it looks like that, we don’t need to be here because it’s that’s rough. Yeah, you said about everything I wanted to say on it. It was a very tough watch. Um, Indy’s always been a tough track uh for the NASCAR guys to put on a good show. just uh it’s a indie car track hauling through and through and proved it yet again. No matter what car we bring, it’s never been a great track for NASCAR, but you’d hope it would be better than what we saw on Sunday cuz like you said, it was one of the worst over races I’ve seen in a very long time. Uh the Texas races in years past is probably better was probably better than this. It’s just the air was just so stupid. Uh it controlled everything. you could had a 25th place car and if you got the track position and you were um long as you didn’t make a big mistake, you were gonna keep it. Um we saw and when you did make a mistake and there’s cars stop lined up behind you, you lost three or four positions because everybody’s just so on top of each other and can’t go nowhere that if you do make a mistake, you’re really going to pay for it. But um yeah, this is frustrating. I remember early in the I think earlier in the race I think it was Eric Jones um I think he tried to pass Bubba or something and um or maybe it been somebody else but he just went straight up into one when the guy in front of him just cut him off and he just went straight up and lost a position to the guy behind him which to be fair is a car issue. It’s it’s not a but it was just so bad. I’m like and it wasn’t an egregious move by the guy whoever was in front of air just turned into the corner. Yeah. and just kind of took his just took his line away, which is it’s fine. It’s what you’re supposed to do, but it just killed the 43’s momentum and he just I mean, it probably took him five laps to get back to where he was and now he’s a car behind. Lost position in the process. So, um you know, you had to have just a huge run off a corner and just hope you can, you know, clear them going into the next corner. Um or else, you know, you’re going to side side draft each other and might wreck or take the air off you, take their off him and then just lose a whole bunch of speed from the car in front. Let the other cars behind you catch you. So, uh it’s just frustrating. It’s like the 550 package all over again. Just couldn’t pass, couldn’t go nowhere. And again, the winner end of the day, I don’t have uh I mean, I don’t cheer for Bubba. Don’t really like him, but uh he’s done better the past year or two. But obviously it hurts my my uh playoffs with Chris and I want Chris to make it and you know with with Bubba winning another winner now Chris is on the cut line. So if we get another new winner and it’s not Chris he’s going to be out unless he jumps Bowman which is still a possibility but puts a lot of pressure on Chris and that 17 team to get a race win which I think they can these next four weeks but right now damn time and um he’s going to probably need to win a race or at least jump Alex to make the playoffs. I don’t think where he’s at right now will be safe. I think somebody new will win if it’s not him. So that that sucks for me. But Bubba did a great job all day like you said. Uh beat the best in the business, especially at Indie. Um on two restarts, held him off and did a great job and he deserves to win this race and um he deserves to make the playoffs and we you know we’ll see how he goes from see how it goes for from here with him and that team. They they start off to started off good, cooled down in the early part of the summer. They’ve been heating it back up here recently and obviously this win, you know, fixes all their problems. So, see how it goes on the 23 team, but uh yeah, another Toyota winning. Uh it’s unfortunate and uh who who would have thought Bubble Walls would have been the first 2311 car to win this year. I mean, it would have been not as surprising if Riley Herps would have been the one, but we all assumed Tyler Re would get a win by now and get 231 in the playoffs first over Bubba and he hasn’t. Bubba’s able to do it first for 2311 and second week as open team. So, that’s kind of funny as well. Denny wins last week at Dover. First week is open car even though Denny’s drives for J Gibbs. I know that. But Toyota or 2311’s had a pretty good two weeks being uh open cars. But yeah, as far as the the race overall goes, I agree. I think it was the worst oval race of the year. Followed closely behind Bristol. Um Bristol was really bad, too. Yeah. And I was there at Bristol, so yeah, it was essentially the same race. Yeah, I give it a three out of 10. I think two and a half, three out of 10. It just it wasn’t it didn’t do nothing for me uh other than the track prestige the the nostalgic re reasons and I still want Indie as the oval. I don’t want us to go back to the road course. I want them to race at IRP but that’s fine. Um I mean I like us racing at Indie just because it’s it’s a big track and it’s in the United States. We probably need to race there, but we got to figure out a way to make this a better race because like because like we’ve never had a a banger race at Indie that I can remember. It’s always been really hard to pass. It’s never been like I said, it’s an indie car track, so you know, we got to find a way to make these cars a little bit easier to pass at this track. Um I don’t know what they do in that situation. I think maybe they try to go to um like what you were saying, high downforce um and high drag, try to get like huge runs on each other here. Yeah, I think they should take all the downforce out of the cars or opposite I guess and give them 1400 horse and say go get it. That way they have that ain’t going to happen. Way they slow way down in the corners to a point that Aerodynamics don’t even matter. Good luck with that. That’s why racing was so good back in the uh 70s, 80s, and 90s because they didn’t have any [ __ ] downforce. They had all this goddamn horsepower. They scream eagle straight down the straightaways and have to stop in the corners. Yeah, it’s fair. That ain’t going to happen. Nope. Um, you know who uh did stop in a corner? Well, Eric Moroa. Yeah, Eric did. And well, it was kind of on a short shoot, but he stopped in the middle of a corner uh and hit a brick wall. Yeah. Well, not a brick wall, but he hit he hit a wall like a ton of bricks. At the yard of brick. Yeah. And who did that? Um Bobby Hill. Did Bobby H. interesting name. Changed his name. I don’t blame him if he changed his name. Um, my favorite driver of all time, Austin Hill. Uh, just deliberately right hooks Eric Comarola at one of the faster tracks in NASCAR because he got a little bump and run action. I don’t think he touched him. I’ve got a rant for this, by the way, but you you get yours out of the way first. On what? On this whole situation. Okay. So, yeah. uh battling for I think close in the top five, maybe top 10. I don’t remember. I didn’t see much of the race on Saturday. I was like I was at my farm. So I I missed most of the race. Uh what from what I saw, Eric was faster than Austin. Austin had some nose damage and Eric kind of just gives him a little little bumper, gets him a little bit loose. Uh out of three going into four. Eric gets on the inside of Austin. Austin does a does a great job saving the car, but then he just deliberately turns left and dumps Eric in the middle of the corner at a sharp angle. Uh, obviously we knew what happened at the moment. Austin comes on the radio. Oh man, my bad. I’ll still try to correct it, but my fault, which to be fair, the right thing to say in that situation cuz but then here in about 2 minutes uh later when he’s on pit road cuz NASCAR blacks black flag black flags them for five laps. He which again not the not that’s the opposite thing to do there. Might be true though. Might be true. NASCAR does make some stupid [ __ ] They do but they got this one right but that is [ __ ] He said [ __ ] That is [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] NASCAR or something like that over the radio, which is the same thing you would say in that situation. Um, if I right hook somebody, I’ve seen you I race. I’ve never right. I’m going to wreck this [ __ ] if he blocks me one more time. And I never do it cuz you’re too slow to get back to him. Oh yeah, that’s what it is. Um, no. I do what Eric did. I give him the bump and run. And if I had I give him the virtual finger at the window as I pass. That should be an option on the virtual finger. Come on. B to flip off old dude. [ __ ] you, kid. But um yeah, clearly what he did and um also Eric was like, “Yeah, he turned me on purpose.” Austin Hill didn’t say nothing after the race. He declined media media availability. Richard Childress gets on there like, “Oh, well, you know, they shouldn’t penalize suspend suspend Austin. I got the quote. The uh this is ahead. I got to rant him out.” Sorry. Well, okay. Yeah, go ahead. That’s fine. Because Yeah. Never mind. Go. Yeah, we’ll get into it. Do yours if you got to. No, I’m just saying today they they did suspend Austin Hill. They did. They did. The right decision. Yes. All right. So, do I understand Austin Hill being upset about being in his mind moved by Eric Omaro? I get it. Nobody wants the bump and run to happen to him. Nobody wants to be driven what they perceive as dirty. Do I understand the frustration? Yes. I do want to give credit to Austin Hill. That was a hell of a save. I mean, drove the [ __ ] out of that car to save that car with damage. A lot of people would have wrecked that car. A lot of cup drivers would have wrecked that car. Austin Hill saved it, so kudos for that. However, he uh he overreacted a little bit to say the very least. And you know, instead of instead of us talking about what a great save and a good rebound after having damage and, you know, um, good way to battle through the day, Austin Hill getting a whatever 10th place finish out of the day. Instead of us talking about that, we’re talking about Austin Hill not racing at Iowa this weekend. And we’re talking about him losing all of his playoff points and losing um the opportunity to um you know, build points uh this weekend at Iowa. Uh and we’re talking about Richard Childress and Richard Childress Racing. And and this is where my rant’s going to come in because Richard Childress Racing said some stuff that was true. All right. And I’ll give you the quote. All right. I think it was uh who was it? Was it Cric? No. Was it [ __ ] the guy that asked him the question? Uh Dustin Long. Was it Dustin Long? Probably. All right. Dustin Long or whoever it was asked him, you know. Is it is this off the Athletic? No, it was um I think it was Jordan Bianke. Was it? It might have been Jordan. Uh but I could be wrong on that, but I think it was Jordan that asked one of them boys. It wasn’t Bob Pockers. Yeah, it was one of the one of the big guys in NASCAR reporting, not Bob Cockers. But anyways, uh he asked him pretty much, “What are you going to uh what do you got to say about this?” Uh this was after um Austin Hill wrecked him obviously and was penalized um you know, the five laps uh during the race on Sunday or Saturday. Uh walking through the garage, um RC was asked this question. You know, what are you going to say? RCR says RCR Richard Tiller says I ain’t gonna say nothing because I’ll be uh in bigger trouble than I already am uh with NASCAR period. And then um they asked if they should suspend or do anything to Austin um based on this and Childress says hell no. They didn’t do a damn thing to the number two car. Speaking about Austin Centric uh he wrecked Ty Dylan and admitted to it, drove him in the right rear and wrecked him at Kota. It’s who you are. We’re a bluecollar team. They give us trouble all the time. So again, give credit where credit’s due. He says some of that is right. I I I I was a proponent of Austin C getting suspended. I was too. The they did not do a damn thing to the number two car Austin Cric uh when he wrecked Tai. 100% correct. They didn’t. They should have suspended Austin Cynric at Kota. So you are correct RC on that. Yes. However, the rest of it, however, your guy just did worse than what what Cra attempted manslaughter. Um, and you’re not a bluecollar team. Number one, there’s no such thing as bluecollar teams in in top flight NASCAR motorsports. They don’t exist. Maybe they do. Maybe it’s Jeremy Clemens. Maybe he is, you know, maybe he he’s a blueco collar guy. We we we might be able to say that that Ryan Siege Racing is a bluecollar operation. Maybe. What’s the team that Brendon Pool drives for? Uh uh them, whoever they are. Yeah. Alpha Prime. Alpha Prime may be their bluecollar. You know, maybe you could say Joey Gase Motorsports Anderson is Jo, you know, Jordan Anderson. the guys that run 25th every week. Yeah, we could probably say they’re a bluecollar operation. Got six full-time employees, but but we’re not talking about Richard Tilder’s racing as a bluecollar operation when they got [ __ ] six cup championships. Seven or yeah, six, right? Six cup championships. We We’re not talking about Richard Childers Racing that’s got countless Bush Series Nationwide and Exfinity Series championships. We’re not talking about the guy that’s won every [ __ ] restrictor plate race since 1905 in the Xfinity series. Not that team. They’re the bluecollar operation. They’re the blueco collar operation. 1978 maybe when they Yeah, they were. They were back then, but they’re not anymore. They’re just not very good in the Cup series. But they are very good in the Xfinity series. And Austin Hill, I like Austin Hill as a driver more than you do. I think he’s more talented than you think think he is. But but here’s the deal. This is the problem. This is the culture at Richard Childress Racing. The reason that these things keep happening at Richard Children’s Racing because they happen with Richard Children’s race car drivers way more often than they do any other team. Austin, you got Austin Dylan who wrecked half the field to win a race at Richmond last year. They probably should have, you know, taken that one away from him because he right hooked a driver as well. People tend to forget about that. He right hooked the 11. I said it when it happened. Nobody else said anything about it, but he right hooked the 11 at Richmond last year. Nothing was done about it. You got Austin Dylan again. Oh my god. When he won the [ __ ] Daytona 500, big surprise. Eric [ __ ] Almorola tried to kill him. Same [ __ ] guy. Same victim. He just kind of ran. No, he just tried. He ran through him. He wrecked him. Yes, he ran through him. He meant to turn him into the fence. He did it. Won the Daytona 500 doing it. He rattled his cage. You got Austin Hill punching everybody in the face, running through people. You know, Martinsville dive bombing into [ __ ] four cars, doing crazy [ __ ] in the Xfinity series, wrecking Cole Kuster under caution at Charlotte last year. Good job. The reason that these things continue to happen at Richard Childers Racing is because Richard Childress allows it and because that’s the type of driver that Richard Childress wants you to be because that’s the type of person he is. And then when they get any type of push back from any other organization, they’re screaming the victim. I’ll say this. I even in their own team, Sheldon Creed a couple years ago at Martinsville just [ __ ] on their own driver when he didn’t do nothing egregious to Austin Hill at that race. I’ll respect I’ll respect RC for having his driver’s back. I’ll respect that. You know that’s your guy. I’mma stick with him through thick and thin. However, you have to have enough wherewithal or wherewithal. Yeah, wherewithal to to look yourself in the mirror and say, “Hey, I might be doing something, you know, detrimental here by running my organization this way. My guys can’t continuously be put in these situations and and think it’s okay because I’m giving them the the appearance that it’s going to be okay.” And and that’s the biggest issue. And it’s never going to change because RC’s, if you watch the Nhard documentary, while [ __ ] Richard Children’s Racing was still essentially in its infasy, he did a um, you know, an interview saying, you know, if everybody [ __ ] hates us, it is what it is, and we have to [ __ ] wreck somebody or beat their ass. It is what it is. We’re going to do it. And as you get older, you get more stuck in your way. And you’re stuck in your ways. Yeah. So, Richard Children’s Racing is probably my least favorite organization in in Cup Series because I really just don’t like Richard Childress and and he is a he’s the figure head. He’s the Jerry Jones of NASCAR. He’s the Yeah, he’s what Eric Eric. He’s that guy, right? and and everybody in his organization is empowered to act like a jackass because he acts like a jackass. Everybody in NASA, everybody on his team is empowered to say the stupid [ __ ] because he says the stupid [ __ ] And you know, behind closed doors, if you want to go up to Austin Hill and say, “Hey, this is [ __ ] I’ve got your back. you know, I’m I’m not going to let them, you know, we’re gonna we’re gonna we’re gonna appeal the suspension if it happens. We’re gonna we’re gonna fight this. We’re gonna have your back. We’re going to do what it is, but don’t do that. But you can’t do this, right? If that happens behind closed doors, which is the way it would happen with Rick Hendrick and the way it would happen with Jack Roush and the way it would happen with Joe Gibbs and the way it would happen with every other professional owner in the motorsports business, that’s one thing. But to walk down pit road and say, “We’re the bluecollar team. NASCAR’s got their foot on us. They don’t let us get away with anything.” When your own [ __ ] grandson wrecked three cars to win a race and they still let you keep the win. Didn’t let him in the playoffs. Granted, they didn’t let you in the playoffs, but that should give you an idea that they’re trying to throw you a bone, right? Because they should have disqualified him. They should have suspended him for a race for right hooking the 11 car, but they didn’t. They said, “Hey, you’re not going to make the playoffs. You get to keep the win. It is what it is. We’ll call it even.” But if they wanted to [ __ ] you, they could have. And Richard Childress doesn’t understand that. Richard Childress thinks it’s woe is me, woe is me, when it’s not. And until Richard Childress, which is never going to happen, gets it through his [ __ ] thick head that he’s the problem, the problem. Nothing is ever going to change with Richard Childers racing. And you can hire Kyle Bush in the Cup Series. You can hire whoever you want to. Those cars are going to continue to suck. and you’re going to continue to have drivers do stupid [ __ ] because Richard Childris does not understand what it takes to be a legitimate Cup Series owner. Uh, and he doesn’t understand how to run a respectable business. It looks like from the outside. The only time Richard Childers Racing has ever been competitive in the Cup Series is when he had Hall of Fame race car driver Kevin Harvick, who left because of Richard Childress’s [ __ ] and when he had arguably the greatest driver in the history of the sport. Other than that, they’ve been dog [ __ ] Those are the two guys in the history of Richard Children’s Racing that have been worth anything. And they’re and they both have [ __ ] over 70 wins, over 60 wins, however many Kevin has. I think he has 60. And 60 multiple championships. One of them’s the greatest of all time. Hell yeah, Thunder. That’s all they’ve got. And the reason that’s all they’ve got is because those two overcame Richard’s [ __ ] They weren’t helped by him. And I say that more for Harvick more than I do Dale. I think Richard was Dale could have won a [ __ ] He was doing fine. He won a championship without him. That’s fair. Kevin won a champion. Both of his champ Well, he’s only got one. Yeah, he’s only got one. won his championship without him. Won most of his races without him or at least half of them. Yeah, he only had like 20 something, I think. So, like, sure, we can have that argument with Dale. You know, Dale and Richard were, you know, you know, yeah, I think twocart tango type deal there. But, you know, yeah, when when you’ve been around NASCAR for 30 years and you’ve got two drivers that you can point to as successes and one of them’s the greatest of all time and one of them did most of his winning on another team, in the mirror. I I think you can look yourself in the mirror and say, “Maybe I’m the problem.” And I think Richard’s the problem. Yeah, well said. Um, he said everything I wanted to say about the Richard Childers thing. The Austin Hill thing. Uh, he’s been doing this, not to this extent, but he’s been doing this for years. That’s why I don’t like him. He’s a bully. Thinks he can get away with anything. He, uh, he ruffs some he ruffles some feathers against other people, but when somebody does it to him, he has an extreme pro problem with it. And, uh, just he lost his head. and uh at a track where you you can’t do that. You know, Eric Roll has already sustained a back injury before. He’s already broke his back one time. And uh he could have older age could have definitely broke his back again or worse in that uh in that wreck there. And um you know, I didn’t defend my one of my favorite drivers in Chase a couple years ago at Charlotte. you damn well you know I ain’t going to defend Austin Hill the guy that I probably can’t stand the the most in in NASCAR period. That goes for anybody in NASCAR. I just I can’t stand the guy. And um oh he’s got maybe one win in the Exfinity series that’s not a Super Speedway and that’s Homestead last year or well I guess Martinsville this year but I mean [ __ ] I could have won in my damn Ford Ranger if I restart on the se on seventh on that last couple restarts but um so yeah I just not saying Austin Hill’s not a talented driver but um he’s doing things reminiscent of Tai Gibbs and Ty Gibbs never right hooks anybody uh when he was in Nick Sunny series winning races and winning races at actual real tracks or not real tracks but more tracks and super speedway tracks like Austin does. Um so yeah, I just unacceptable. I’d have been fine with two race suspension or something like that, but um he does lose all his playoff points. Uh he had the third most playoff points I believe uh before uh the suspension. I agree with NASCAR like I said and um they they did something on Saturday and they did something in the race which is what I’ve been preaching. Don’t and I know that car wants to be safe. Well, if he didn’t mean to do it on purpose. He should have parked them to be on Yeah. But five laps was only like I’ll take it. Yeah, I’ll take it. They should have parked them. Yes. Um but I like to do something on Saturday and Sunday or and Tuesday whenever the uh penalty report comes out, which I think is Tuesday. So, um I love that they did both of them instead of, oh, well, you know, he can’t really prove nothing, so let’s just wait and let him finish the race while they need to mandate wearing white gloves. Yes, I agree. You could clearly That’s how they That’s how they can prove it. Yeah. Is because the man’s got a straight steering wheel after he saves it. Again, hell of a save and then you see that right hand go to the top of the steering wheel, which to be fair, do you even need that these days though because of telemetry and SMT data and stuff like that? That’s maybe not, but it it makes it easier to prove in a court when you can show show the arbitrator, hey, look at his hands. He turned the corner hand. Look at his hands. He turned left. See, suspend his ass. But, uh, yeah, Austin just losing his cool yet again. And, um, he’s 30. How old is he? 31 years old. He’s old enough to know better. Um, which again, I understand the heat of the battle. I’m [ __ ] mad at you for doing that to me, but if right hooking a guy is your go-to when you’re mad, that’s an issue. Now, I understand running in there and giving him the same [ __ ] maybe a little bit worse the next corner. Yeah. But right hooking a guy at 180 mph, well, they were probably about buck 50 based on where they were at in the track, but still right hooking a guy right there, same thing. Chase Elliot, I called for a suspension as soon as it happened. Bubba Wallace called for a suspension as soon as it happened. Austin Cric for a suspension as soon as I saw it because I don’t think I saw it live. Austin Hill, I texted you and I said Austin Hill is probably going to miss a race next week. And I thought you meant like he got hurt and I said, “No, that [ __ ] just right hooked Eric Amarola. They going to suspend his shit.” Yeah. and they did. And uh other thing, Richard Tildrus has decided not to appeal the suspension. So why talk all that [ __ ] on Saturday if you’re not even going to fight it? Doesn’t make sense. Had had more of a clear eye to what happened, I guess. I don’t know. But uh yeah, completely ridiculous. Right hook should never be allowed in NASCAR. And I’m with the the party of I don’t care if you’re doing that at Martinsville or Pocono going into turn one. Never. It never should be acceptable to right hook, left hook, center hook, bottom hook. I don’t give a [ __ ] what type of hook it is. Should never be acceptable in NASCAR. And I stand by that. All right. Well, we talked about it in a small in RTT last week in a small context, but NASCAR was going to San Diego, but we didn’t know in what way. Last week, we found that information out. They’re racing at a naval base in San Diego. um had a cool ad, cool uh trailer I guess for it with Chase Elliot, Chase Brisco, Joey Joey Logano, Noah Gregson, William Byron, Carson Osavar, I believe. And uh it’s like a three minute video if you ain’t seen it. Um you probably seen it by now, but if you haven’t seen it, check it out on YouTube on NASCAR’s channel. Really awesome. Uh it’s I love Chase Elliott doing that stuff. He’s most popular driver and I’ve been begging for him to do that stuff. um to get in commercials, getting involved in NASCAR, helping the sport grow. And he finally did, and he did a good job. He’s pretty pretty good. Uh all of them are really good. Um doing that uh that uh commercial or video for for the uh street race next year. So, um my initial thoughts from it, uh I thought I think it’s going to be cool. It’s going to be different. You know, in mainstream media these days, you got to have something that’s new, unique, different. Um, we saw it with Chicago in the street race a couple years ago. It worked for a year or two and then this year it kind of died out. LA Coliseum, it worked for a year or two, then it died out. Let’s do this. San Diego, same thing. Let’s do it for a year or two and then it’ll probably die out. Let’s go somewhere else. Let’s go to um, you know, New York or, you know, Houston or I don’t I don’t know, just a big city or a cool little place. Do it in Hawaii. Do it on a [ __ ] aircraft carrier. Uh, my dad suggested that. Do it on an aircraft carrier. I think I thought it’d be [ __ ] amazing. Just [ __ ] no nets either. Just [ __ ] you go off the [ __ ] course, you’re [ __ ] in the water. Um that’s not going to happen, but it’d be kind of it’d be funny. But um yeah, I like the idea of it. And it’s better than another Chicago race. It’s um it’s probably better than another Richmond race, even though I probably I like Richmond more as a track, but uh the way this car is doesn’t put on great racing at Richmond. Um so, I’m I’m good with it. Uh I hope it works. I think it’s going to be a cool cool scene, and that’s what these street races are all about. It just looks cool, the uh the glamour of it more than the racing aspect. And I’m okay with it with it for a couple times a year like that if it’s the racing itself. But I think the racing itself will be good. It’s a different track. These guys will not have any practice time until they come out sim time until they like real sim time until they go out there in the track and practice that that Friday on Father’s Day weekend. Um, and see how the track goes. And that’s going to create a lot of parody and a lot of mistakes and some good race racing because not all the drivers can do the exact same thing because it’s a new track, new course. You’re not comfortable with it. And um I think it’ll be a pretty good race. I’m excited to see it. I hate this on Father’s Day weekend. I I’m not a huge fan of that, but I I like it better there than on Fourth of July weekend. I’ve said it, you know, I think Fourth of July weekend and NASCAR should definitely be an oval track. Should not be a road course track. I don’t care what city you you host it in. It needs to be a, you know, a big time oval race like it used to be back at Daytona back for years and years. And you suggested and I agree with you, Atlanta. Next year should be the Fourth of July race. I think that’s a perfect spot for it considering how good the racing is in Atlanta and it’s in the South. NASCAR’s grassroots. It’s a big weekend. Not a lot of sporting action going on that Fourth of July weekend. You could drag you could grab a lot of eyeballs other than baseball. You grab a lot of eyeballs with with you know having a a super speed wave type track. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um got shout out to uh oh hell who was that uh that Shane Gillis said that turned out to be his friend’s wife. What was her name? Becky Williams or something. Shout out Becky Williams. Four time all uh that’s my friend’s wife. You guys didn’t know anything about the WNBA. That was funny. But uh yeah, I’m I’m looking forward to it. Um we’ll see how it goes. But uh if this means we’re leaving Chicago, which it does, you know, I I’ll take a new track, new course. Navy base, awesome. NASCAR and the military’s always work great together. I still say to this day, NASCAR does the best job at uh supporting our troops and showing our uh true patriotism and um our true um thankfulness for what the military has done for this country. NASCAR is the best at it. and uh doing it at a naval naval base in San Diego is just a match made in heaven. I think the the scenery there will be awesome. Yeah, I think um I think this might be I think it’s going to be difficult um to continue logistically with this as it would be any street race that you would do. Technically, this is not going to be a street race. I know they haven’t released um what the layout’s going to be, but if I had to guess, it’s going to be on the air strips parking lot. Um if I had to guess, um you know, in the past, they’ve had some air airport um racetracks. Cleveland, Ohio had one in the Indie Car series for quite a while. Um there’s another one that I’m missing. Um oh, Sebring. Sebring’s an old uh airirstrip. Um there’s a lot of um you know airport style racetracks um around the world. Um the one in in England, Silverstone, that’s at that’s old World War II airport. Um but yeah, I think it’s I think it’s awesome. This is one of those races, you know, that I think, you know, people will will say indie, oh well, it’s not about the actual racing, it’s about the venue. I disagree as far as NASCAR goes at Indie, but this might be one of those things. Uh this might be they it could be the worst race in of the year and it still be cool because of what it is. And I don’t think it will be at least not year one uh the worst race of the year. But um I do think I do think it’s going to be just really awesome to see the the scenery, the sights, the sounds. um all the all the Navy guys that are going to be there. Um for those of you that don’t know, I’m sure a lot of you do, but uh Naval Base Coronado is home to Buds, the basic underwater um uh training for for Navy Seals. Uh so SEAL training occurs at Coronado. So Navy Seals will be there. Um that’s the SEALs command center essentially is at Coronado. Um so uh the best of the best as far as the military is concerned will be there. Um and you know the the best the military has to provide. Uh the Navy Seals um are there. So that’s cool. Um I I love I love the Navy Seals. I’ve done a bunch of uh uh watch a bunch of documentaries on how they do their training. I grew up I wanted to be a Navy Seal. Um it’s just one of the one of the coolest um of the cool things that that are that are in our military. Um and they’re they’re trained right there in Coronado. So um just having that there um I’m sure uh if if I had to wager on it, the president will probably be there. Like it’s going to be a big thing because you know next year we’ve got the 250th anniversary of of America gaining its independence from England. Um, it’s going to be a big deal and it’s going to be a lot of high flutin individuals that are there, a lot of military personnel, a lot of very important political people will be there. Um, which always makes events whether you agree with people politically or not, whether you agree with, you know, whatever, they show up at your event, it’s a big deal. It’s a big deal and it’s going to make news and it’s going to make headlines and it’s going to be the hottest ticket in town and that’s what you need in in a sport that’s struggling to gain um mainstream attraction again. So, um I think it’s an an awesome awesome move. I think it’s going to be a net win no matter what the racing on the track looks like similar to how Chicago was uh at least year one and year two. Um, and I hope it does put on a good race and I hope it’s something that’s scalable and something that um can put on a good enough show and and have a good return on investment to where these things continue to happen. Um, now maybe I think if it was a July 4th weekend race that would be really cool. And this is, you know, me just spitballing. I’ve not thought about this until just now, but if if they could come up with a way to have a yearly naval base, army base, air force base race and you rotate that one on July 4th weekend across the country to have like that’s your July 4th weekend um uh tradition. You go to a a military base somewhere in the United States and hold a race. That would be dope. Yeah, that would be awesome. Now like Fort Knox or something. Probably not. Well, Fort Knox, they hold gold there. And that’s not possible. But yeah, it is. Anything’s possible. Anything is possible. But you know, there’s a army base in Colombia. There’s there’s Camp Lun in North Carolina. There’s Camp Pendleton. There’s there’s a 100 different, you know, military bases across this country that you could hold a NASCAR race at and um there’s a lot of open space there and there’s a lot of opportunity to build racetracks at them um if you want to and it’s logistically possible. Um that would be a cool tradition. Probably not ever going to happen, but just spitballing here. But as far as Coronado goes, um I’m excited for it regardless of what the layout is and I think it’s going to be awesome. I’m already excited for what paint schemes are brought that weekend because, you know, it’s gonna be [ __ ] ridiculous. Well, they should. I don’t know if they will. It should be ridiculous. Maybe not everybody, but a lot of teams are going to, you know, build submarines. Guaranteed’s going to be on the six car that weekend. Build submarines. Yeah. Going to be on probably be on all three of them. Yeah. Probably going to be on on some Rous cars that weekend. Um, you know, it’s been a while since you’ve seen a Navy sponsor in in NASCAR. Wouldn’t surprise me if you saw one that weekend. Um, Air Force, National Guard. These are all companies. Legacy Legacy. We used to have all of the uh the military branches sponsoring cars. You think back to the one Army Go Army cars, the old one. Yeah. You think back to the 43 Air Force cars. You think back to the 88 in the Exfinity series. Anyway, National Guard 88, Navy, National Guard 16, Greg Biff, um the Navy 14 in the Infinity series with Oh, what’s his face? That guy. Ah, damn it. I always forget his name. But, uh Casey Atwood. Yeah, like you said, NASCAR does a really good job showing its patriotism. The uh the Cook 600 weekend, Memorial Day weekend is one of my favorite traditions in the sport. um you know with all the uh the military personnel um that are around that weekend at the racetrack and uh I think that’s going to be turned up to 10 at uh Naval Base Coronado. So can’t wait for it. I’m really excited. I agree. Hit that button for RT RT. ripping the topics. [Music] Stut Stewart Freezen ain’t doing too good. He’s all right. He um he had a terrible uh dirt race wreck uh yesterday evening in Canada. Uh he kind of got a little too high off the back on the backstretch. Um lost control of his car, flipped upside down, burst into flame. Burst into flame. Somebody else came in there. And apparently he’s got a uh broken hip and pelvic fracture. Pelvic fracture and a broken leg. Um so he gonna be out for a while. And his pelvis is fractured in two places. um based on um what was released on what his his injuries were and I can’t remember exactly the terminology but the terminology indicates that it’s multiple fractures um and uh so this is the fear of a lot of cup owners that allow their guys to rate dirt race dirt races you know so Alex Bowman get hurt a couple years ago breaking his back and how it affected him and this is like almost the worst case scenario like you get hurt this bad. Um cuz Shane cuz uh Stewart’s going to be out for a while. Um he was in the playoffs. He probably won’t race again this year. No, he uh he was in the playoffs in truck series. He won that race in Michigan a month ago or so or a month and a half ago. Um almost won the race on uh Friday night at IRP was running ran really good. Uh, I think he finished second uh to to Lane Riggs there. Or no, not second, third or fourth to to Lane Riggs because Connor Connor Day finished second in that race. So, he’s been on a good good run here recently and you know, you get this and it’s just terrible for him. But, you know, this is the dangers of racing outside of NASCAR. This is why Joe Gibbs didn’t allow, you know, their guys, his drivers to race, you know, other than, you know, stock car racing um for years. why Rick Hendrick really didn’t like it all that much uh for years because this is this is like snowboarding he allowed that I don’t think anymore though um you know this is the fear of every cup owner of every team owner really you know you don’t want your guy getting hurt in an activity or a race that is not what he you’re paying him a lot of money for um and truck series is a little different you’re not getting paid as much money you know he owns his own team too that’s too yeah that that’s fair, too. But, you know, at the end of the day, it it it it hurts short sponsors. It hurts his team. And um you know, he hasn’t until that win in Michigan, he hadn’t won a race in I think four or five years. So, for him to make the playoffs or he was going to make the playoffs with the Michigan win, now him getting hurt, you know, it’s a it’s a gut punch to that whole team. And uh I know it’s going to be hard for Short to to recover rehab knowing that you know he possibly had a chance to win a championship this year in the truck series and that’s gone. They still do that the team can still win a championship and that’s where the money’s made. That’s fair. But sort of the driver. So, if they call up if they call up damn Connor Zillich or something, which it’s not going to be Connor Zillich, but if they call up somebody can drive the [ __ ] out of a truck, they can still make the championship and in the owners championship and win it, and that’s what pays the bills. Yeah. So, as far as a team goes, I get it. You’re not wrong. But the money is It hurts the team. It It hurts Steuart personally way more than it affects the team. Yeah. uh because he’s a race car driver and he wants to [ __ ] drive and he’s been on a roll here recently. He’s been doing very well. But so um but real quick, I’ll end up in on this. It’s just, you know, I don’t want the drivers to necessarily stop what they’re doing um outside of their main job on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays, but you know, um I hate to see it. It happens, but we’ve seen it far too recently or far too much recently as far as, you know, guys getting hurt in NASCAR outside of the car in other series. So, I don’t know what we can do to fix that really. It’s just um it’s part of it. Uh maybe we’ve gotten a little too lenient. I don’t think we have in NASCAR, but um when stuff like this happens, you you start to wonder if if NASCAR needs to get more the teams owners need to get more strict on what they allow their drivers to do on their uh on their off time. I don’t want that to happen, but you know, this this this has a this goes in the case of uh her side for yeah, let’s limit these drivers to, you know, only racing in NASCAR. Yeah, I disagree. Um yeah, it sucks that that he got hurt. I’m not I’m not saying that they should, but I disagree with that that thought process. Um, and you know, I get it. You know, he jumped in the car, he got hurt, kind of a freak deal. It happens. Seems like one or two guys a year, you know, end up getting hurt um from, you know, dirt track racing. Um, but the way I look at it is, you know, Stuart Fzen’s a grown ass man, right? And especially with him owning his own team, if he wants to go dirt racing, let him go dirt racing. And if he gets hurt, he knew the risk getting into it. And you know, it it’s unfortunate that he he did get hurt, but you know, I liken it back to again the the Dale um documentary that came out when when he was asked, you know, how can you get in a car every week knowing that it could kill you? That’s the only thing I know. It’s the only thing I know how to do. It’s what I want to do. And race car drivers want to race. That’s it. They want to race. They don’t want to race once a week and sit on their ass and do jack dick. Some of them do. And and most of the ones that do that aren’t very successful. Now, there’s outliers that only race on Sundays and that are very good, but Chase Elliott races other stuff. Kyle Larson races other stuff. Christopher Bell, William Byron, [ __ ] Bubba Wallace drives legends cars. You know, Brad Keslowski jumps in stuff every now and again. All of the successful race car drivers from, as far as I can remember, have all raced in other series and have all raced competitively in other series and have all done dangerous [ __ ] in other series. And some of them have gotten hurt. Yep, they have. But they knew what they were doing getting in those cars and they should have that decision to make. Um, as far as Stuart goes, you know, it’s unfortunate that this happened to him. Um, but you know, again to to not seem, you know, uh, unkind or or cold-hearted or whatever, but these guys all know what it is when they get in these cars. They know what can happen and they’re okay with it. So, I don’t really lose sleep when a guy gets injured in a race car because the race car drivers don’t. And Stuart Fzen is going to battle like hell to get get fixed up and jump back in a race car as quickly as possible. I guarantee you if if he could flip a switch and be healed, he would be back in his dirt car this weekend. No regrets. And yeah, maybe one maybe. I don’t know. I don’t know how that’s just and that’s that’s the type of mindset you have to have to be a race car driver. And a lot of people don’t have it. and the great ones do. And that’s why I think Kyle Bush was so good for so long is because he could break both his legs, hop back in a car, and go out, be competitive, you know, pick whoever you want. Kyle Larson, you know, race every week. The more he races, the more competitive he is. Christopher Bell, you know, all these guys, the more they race, the better they are. And to take that away from somebody, I think is wrong. And I don’t think I don’t think the team should do that. But as far as Steuart goes, I hope Steuart gets gets well as as soon as possible. I know uh he’s got a couple surgeries ahead of him. Uh and and uh you know, that’s its own venture. Um hopefully no complications, but you know, as we’ve seen with several people, Alex Smith in the NFL, you know, surgery doesn’t always go the way it should. So, uh just keep them in your prayers. Hope everything goes okay with that. and um we see him back in the truck series race uh sooner rather than later, but again with with the injuries he’s got, he it ain’t going to be this year. Yeah, I agree. Uh speaking of that, uh he did race in the truck series Friday night. I didn’t watch it. Truck and Exfinity. I did. Um you could talk on the Xfinity series. I didn’t hardly watch it. Uh truck series on Friday night. Lane rigs uh pretty much dominated from start to finish. uh Coryheim for probably the first time all year and didn’t really have a chance to win the race. Still finished, I think fourth or fifth, but uh definitely did not have the best truck. Uh not even a top three truck. So, uh yeah, Lane Rigs, he’s he’s a great short track racer. That’s what he’s known for. And and uh he put it on him. Uh Cory got shot at Cory Day uh running second. Uh that’s pretty impressive. had a long green flag run towards the end of the race and he went from I think eighth or ninth back up to first or first second and he was catching lane there for a minute. You know, probably lap traffic. Lane was saving stuff. Lane was clearly the better car or truck, but uh Cory did a great job. Uh didn’t have too many incidents. Had uh one guy, I think, blow a tire, hit wall hard. I forgot who it was, but uh pretty clean racing throughout the field for the most part. I had some cautions here and there, but um yeah, it was a solid truck race. IRP, it’s one of it’s it’s my most it’s my favorite underrated track in in NASCAR. I love IRP. Um I think it’s an awesome track. I think the truck and Exfinity Series should definitely race there. Cup Series, you know, I would still like them to still race at the big track at Indie because it’s just it it it gets more eyeballs on it if you race there than on a short track at IRP. IRP as far as stock car racing goes is a better track than Indianapolis Motor Speedway. So, um I love IRP. I wish the Experience Series was still racing there, but um you know, for everything we got, kind of a dominating race winner. It was still a decent race. Not nothing crazy happened. Just a solid race and and a butt whooping pretty much by Lane Regs at the end, but he deserved the race and he did. Didn’t get a late race caution. Didn’t get a whole bunch of overtime restarts, whole bunch of rags. So, I thought it was a solid race and um a deserving winner with Lane getting the second win of the year. Um he’s the only real competition I see even though championship format is it can anything can happen, but Lane Riggs is the only guy that I could see going toe-to-toe with Cory Him in the playoffs as far as speed goes week in and week out. He just got to execute more, get a maybe one win more before the playoffs, get closer to Cory, make sure he gets in the final four. If he gets in the final four, that’ll be Cory’s uh steepest competition when we get to Phoenix in November. Yeah. As far as the race on Saturday goes, um kind of similar to Sunday. Wasn’t Wasn’t a great race. It wasn’t as bad as as Sundays. Um you know, kind of dominated by uh Hendrick Motorsports, which or not. Hendrick essentially. essentially. Well, they were well yeah with they were uh but dominated by uh Junior Motorsports. Um the seven car was best car um which you know how that worked because Larson was supposed to call the race on Saturday with Adam and I think Jamie Jamie was Parker too. They had all three of them up there because Kyle Kyle Lara was supposed to be the special guest. I they didn’t say anything about it during the broadcast. I guess I guess they just kind of Hendrick decided to let’s let Larson race maybe. I don’t know. Or maybe somebody I remember seeing that when they when they started that little driver special guest when they took Parker out a lot. It was a lot of Jamie and Adam with different drivers like Denny last week and Chris Revel the week before and AJ and stuff like that. Yeah. Kyle Larson was supposed to call the race with them on Saturday and then he I don’t know. I don’t know. But um Kyle Larson was decent um on Saturday. Um the seven car was the best car. Um and there wasn’t a ton to speak about. You know, kind of a regular indie race. Um and you know, this the seven car should have won it though. And and on a restart uh it was the 17 on the inside. the the seven had picking been picking the outside on these restarts and he decided to pick the outside again and and the 17 drove it in there and just just lost it and and and wrecked them both and uh took the seven out and from that point it was it was Connor Zillich and um that’s really the takeaway from the race is is Connor Zilich. He’s won three in a row. Um, and you know, so he completely different and I’ve been saying I told you a couple years ago about Connor Zillich and uh I’ve been saying as far as I’ve known his name, as long as I’ve known his name that Connor Zilich was going to be a problem and um he’s going to be a problem. um you know he’s he’s very very good at everything and he’s he’s a exceptional road course racer but he’s becoming a hell of an oval racer and he has not been doing it that long and that’s a problem because once he actually learns what he’s doing he’s uh he’s going to be a tough one to deal with. Is he the next Kyle Bush? The problem is he’s he’s going to track a house and and that’s not 30th 30th place. Not that’s not that’s not announced yet for sure, but uh they don’t have very good equipment. But he’s if he is in that car next year, he will win a he will win a road course race and he will be more competitive than anybody has been in that equipment on the ovals other than m you know he he’ll probably be on the same level as Ross for a little while. Uh but sooner rather than later, he’s going to be the best driver every weekend for that team. That’s calm down. Um I I I’ve got I’ve got super high expectations for Connor Zilich. And uh don’t fall into the Ty Gibbs trap. That’s fair. Now that’s fair cuz Ty Ty Gibbs did the same thing. Won the second or the first race he ever raced in the Exfinity Series was Daytona Road Course. Won the race. Uh, that’s what Carter did at Walking Glenn last year. So, same kind of story. Could could be the You’re fair fair. But, um, I’ve got a feeling about Conor that I like Connor. He’s a hell of a driver and he’s got his head on straight. Yeah, he does. And, um, he’s got backing from the right people and, uh, he’s a lot of money. I’m I’m very confident um that he’s he’s going to be something. I just wish he was going to be something in uh Rous Ford. Yeah, keep dreaming on that one. Keep dreaming. All right, R. Let’s tell Let’s tell the audience how wrong you were um earlier in the year when you said Denny Hamlin would race his last year at JGR. Yeah, I was uh I was wrong on most of my preseason predictions, but um Yeah, I mean, uh, I figured Denny would have a down year this year and he’s done the exact opposite. He’s having one of the best years of anybody. And, um, fourth in points right now. I think he’s only 20 points out of the lead from Chase Elliot. Regular season points, the hottest driver out there. Okay. Um, I think he’s got four top fives in a row. Um, or three out of four. Three out of four, something like that. So, um, yeah. Um, got signed to a new contract. Um, I think it’s what, two years? It’s a multi-year deer deal, I think, is what they, uh, released. So, two or three, you know, probably going to be his last one. He said that, um, he’ll probably be done after this one, at least fulltime. But, uh, yeah, I was I was wrong on that. He’s, uh, seemed to have sponsorship. Um, Progressive probably going to stick around and um, yeah, I was wrong. I I didn’t know if they’d have a top flight sponsor. You remember Progressive came on u few weeks into the season this year. Um, we didn’t know who was going to be uh, sponsoring that car if anybody. So, that’s kind of why I thought that they might be done, but they found sponsorship. So, of course, when there is sponsorship, there’s a driver. So, um, sponsor going to be there a couple years, the driver going to be there a couple years. Makes sense. So, um I was wrong. And you know, we got a few more years of him beating your favorite driver. Yeah. Yeah, it makes sense. Uh I kind of I I said Denny would have a down year, too. I didn’t say this would be his last year, but I did say he he’d have a down year. And um clearly we were both wrong on that. Give credit Denny and and Chris Gale, which a lot of people considered to be a bust as a crew chief. um up until this point uh this year with Denny’s, first year with Denny and you know it, um yeah, I mean I get it. Uh you don’t you know not a lot of guys want to step away from the sport when they’re winning multi three, four races a year. It doesn’t make any sense. You still can do it. Do it as long as you can, as long as you still love it. And then he seemed like he still got that fire and passion to to win and win at a high level and compete at a high level and ultimately try to get that championship that has eluded him for for uh for almost 20 years now in the Cub series. And I think that’s what’s driving him. If he has a championship or two by now, does he sign this contract? I don’t know. Probably. But um I’m sure that the drive for that championship is uh is is what’s really leading him to to try to go go at it a couple more times. And uh as long as he’s competitive, I don’t see why he would stop. Usually we see guys around his age here in recent years retire. You know, Jeff Cord retired at 24 or 24, 44, 45, Tony Stewart 46, Matt Kenith 46, 47, Dell Jr. 43, 44, which he had concussion problems. And I’m no stranger to the rain. It is pouring out there. It starts raining. It starts pouring. Time you had to walk in the rain. time. I’m I’m doing it coming from your house playing college football. But um yeah, and makes sense for Denny and uh if he uh like I said, I think it’s probably two more years left, maybe three, but uh he’s got that much time left to try to get a try to get a championship this year. He’s got a great chance at it. Um long as he don’t choke in the playoffs. I think he’s the favorite right now. Is he the favorite? I think so. Yeah, I probably agree with you. But you got to look at the tracks. anything can happen at the Tallaladega and round of eight. That’s usually what he got to remember last year he had the penalty. Yeah. Which hurt his chances, but he didn’t win after that or not after. Yeah, he didn’t win. Fair. He won he won three races early early and didn’t win again. Obviously this year he’s done better than that, but he’s got to continue it. He can’t falter when the playoffs come. And that’s what he’s known to do when the playoffs come is kind of falter down the stretch. not not be run terribly, but he doesn’t win races in the playoffs a lot. That’s when you that’s what you got to do when the playoffs come. Yeah. Well, I hear the speaking of playoffs, I was making sure that that was next on the list. Uh speaking of playoffs, playoffs, um apparently they’re not changing. Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know. But according to the playoff committee, Jeff Kluck is on it. Um he’s released some information saying that it’s kind of a question of whether or not the playoffs are actually going to change. So um there’s been some other stuff released. You know, you had the the uh Mark Martin uh debacle. Well, debacle is probably not the right word, but um the conversation with with Mark Martin and and Larry Mack and Danielle Trot. Danielle Troda. be so hot. Um, so, uh, yeah, first off, [ __ ] your [ __ ] in the should the playoffs change. Second off, what do you make of the feud between Mark Martin and those two? And third off, if if if uh Frogs had wings, would they bump their butt when they jumped? No. Um, would you change the playoffs? Obviously. Um, this is not good news for me. You know, when we talked about this earlier in the year when they came up with this playoff committee, I loved it. I thought it could change enough um bigname drivers, teams or owners, just big names in the sport that have done this in NASCAR in its heyday could maybe get to NASCAR and realize that this one race championship [ __ ] is just not the way to go. And uh for a while there it sounded like yeah we’re gonna have some big changes in 2026 based off you know the playoff committee and a lot of drivers and teams and and owners input and it was looking good. And then you know Jeff Clark says this that NBC is kind of holding NASCAR back because they like the the final four. They like the playoffs. They like the elimination style that uh it creates buzz. It creates drama. It creates interest in the sport. However, the playoff the final race ratings are not good. Not anything special, not anything to write home about. So, if you try to I don’t understand where NBC’s coming from. I get they pay the bill. They decided a multi- uh year uh deal with that TV contract with NASCAR to to host the finales from here till 20 40. No, not not 40. Uh 2035. like a 10 seven 37 year there ain’t it 2032 20 2033 somewhere around there you know I get that you know that the broadcast partner that’s paying a lot of your bills or giving you a lot of money to to to broadcast your your sport. You know I get they want to have a say for but they shouldn’t be in the the main they shouldn’t be the the mainstay and and completely determine what you do to to crown a champion. and it’s your sport at the end of the day. If NBC doesn’t like it, they can kick rocks. Um, they don’t have to host your championship race. They can we can move them off and put them on [ __ ] Amazon Prime. I would love to have Amazon Prime as a finale because they did [ __ ] great. You know, they’re not going to do that, but [ __ ] it. I’m sure Amazon would love to have a NASCAR finale. Um, considering how well they did and um seemed like a lot of the fans loved Amazon that watched it that wasn’t bitching on Facebook that oh, it costs too [ __ ] much when you’re [ __ ] paying. I’m not going to get into that. But um anyways, yeah, I I hate I hate this this news and I hope it doesn’t come true. I hope they do change the playoff format because we’ve had NASCAR has been considered a joke for too long based off this playoff format and this Mickey Mouse championship format that we have that we need that Chase took advantage of. Not as much as Joey Logano has done. Who? Um, but we we need to have a more respectable playoff format and um I I hope they change it. Now I’m afraid they won’t and um it’s disappointing because you know NASCAR says they understand the sport. They understand what the fans want. Um and most of us fans do not like this one place uh one race playoff format. Even the drivers for the most part do not like this one race playoff format. So, it’s got to be all TV and it’s got to be all the fans that don’t really watch NASCAR, that only watch for the Rex, only watch a couple times a year when it, you know, when there’s something on the line that they listen to, you know, as far as this goes, they listen to other they listen to die hards and the drivers and other aspects, but as far as the championship goes, and if you want to have legitimacy back in your playoffs, you would change this format. And unfortunately, it sounds like they’re not going to do it. And um that’s very disappointing to me because I I’m over this [ __ ] final four. I’m over I’m even over eliminations. But if you want to keep eliminations, I get it. That that creates drama for TV. But please please get rid of this one one race playoff um all winter takeoff for championship because you don’t have all 32 teams racing or playing in the Super Bowl. You don’t have all 30 NBA teams playing in the NBA finals. You don’t have all 130 plus schools playing in the college football national championship. And that’s what kind of NASCAR is cuz every driver and every team still goes out there and races in the championship race. It’s not like sticking ball sports. Stop trying to make it be like that. Yeah. Larry M Reynolds and Daniel Troder would disagree with you. Yeah. Sorry, I forgot to talk about that. I mean, you kind of gave your answer just based on what what your opinion. Yes, I agree with Mark Martin. Yeah. And I do, too. Um, you know, I think the biggest issue with with everything you said times two. Um, so I I won’t speak on on whether or not I, you know, I think God agrees with us too with with this Thunder. The playoff format needs to change. We know that. Um, however, I will say this. prior to my Daniel Troda, Larry M Reynolds, she’s so mini rant. She is uh but um the one thing I will say is I called it when when they when they announced this playoff committee, I sat right here in this very chair, talked right here into this very microphone and said, “It ain’t going to mean [ __ ] If NASCAR don’t want to change it, it ain’t going to change.” And I called it. That’s all I’ll say on that. Uh but as far as is Mark Martin and Daniel Hammond getting a new contract. I did not. But uh when I But you did call this one. Hey, when I get them right, I’m going to let you know about it for sure. When I get them wrong, we ain’t going to talk about it. But uh cuz you were mistaken. Yeah, I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. But um yeah, Daniel Troda and Larry Mack and Mark Martin are kind of beefing right now because Mark Martin wants the playoffs to change. um you know on the podcast that Larry Mack and uh Daniel Tro do together show Sirius XM radio a podcast podcast radio show they’re all the [ __ ] same these days but uh um on whatever they talk into a microphone about NASCAR and um they are kind of backhandedly talking [ __ ] about Mark Martin Denny Hamlet I believe yeah and saying hey you know somebody that’s on the playoff committee wants the playoffs to change and Larry Mack goes Is it one that never won a championship? And Daniel Troder said, “Yeah, active driver, too.” Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um they say that active driver happens to be an active driver that hadn’t won that championship yet. They did say that. She’s talking about talking about Denny. Uh, and then you know, but I think the biggest issue here is is I can’t help but think that NASCAR and because they work for NASCAR, right? I mean, yeah, Larry McReynolds is, you know, works for Fox and he worked for TNT as far as the NC tournament thing. They work for the the broadcasters kind of, but they work for Fox. They I mean they work for for NASCAR. They are paid shills essentially for NASCAR because if I know anything about Larry M. Reynolds based on his opinions and based on his career, I find it hard to believe that Larry Mc Reynolds would be a in favor of Yeah. He loves it. And he is playoffs, playoffs, playoffs, playoffs. Love it. Love it. Love it. up in arms when somebody says we need to start eliminating people at Daytona week one like that’s that’s Larry Mack’s perspective on things and you know I just don’t understand that coming from him and to go after Mark Martin or Denny Hamlin you know two of two of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport two guys that would probably be cup champions if the cup if if the playoff format existed you know throughout the entirety of their career doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. And and the reason is is, you know, Larry Mcrenolds benefited as a crew chief from not having a playoff format. he was able to call races and um have a year-long championship to work within and to uh you know have a consistency uh to strive for instead of you know being able to luck into a championship. And it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would not understand that. Uh being as he’s one of the more intelligent guys on television as far as NASCAR stuff goes. So uh the only thing that I can conclude is that he’s just shilling out for NASCAR and NASCAR’s paying him to say uh that the playoffs are good. Um which hey, you know, get your money. But um you know, it’s they’re not good. They will never be good. Um, they need to go back to a full season champion. Uh, they never will do that, which Chase Elliot said last week. Uh, but they need to still still hate Chase Elliot. Um, you know, he says some smart stuff every now and again, but um, you know, the best thing that Indie Car and and the only thing that Formula 1 and Indie Car have on NASCAR is the way that they decide their champion. And um you know it’s like you said racing is not stick in ball sports. We do not need a playoff. Um you know if you look over at you know soccer or football as they call it you know everywhere else in the world most of them don’t have playoffs. Um the English Premier League, the Premier League to everybody else. um you know, one of the more popular, you know, soccer um divisions in the world. They decide their champion based on a point system um throughout the whole year and nobody ever complains about it. And it always comes down to, you know, the last week or two of the season. And um especially now with how competitive a lot of teams are. I think a regular se like right now you’ve got a bunch of guys that would be close in points but would you be okay with that because really no Rous Chris Busher’s got the best chance and he’s like 10 Chris Busher has no chance of winning the championship anyway. Yeah. And he shouldn’t win the championship this year. But he might. But he might. Bubba Wallace just won the race at Indie. He might be your champion. Shane Van Gizburgen. No, this isn’t going to happen. He might be your champion. A guy that ain’t finished better than 25th on Nova all year. And you know that we we that’s where the [ __ ] is. I’ve said it a thousand times. I’ve talked into the m this microphone for four years now about how the playoffs were [ __ ] Um and I said at the beginning of the year when they when they established this playoff committee that uh they weren’t going to do a goddamn thing about it because NASCAR doesn’t want to change the playoffs. And I think it might be, you might be partially true with NASCAR, but I think it’s more of the broadcast. I think it’s NBC. If NASCAR wanted to change it, they’d change it. They tell NBC to shove it if they really wanted to. If they really wanted to, but you know what it’s about? [ __ ] money. That’s what I’m saying. That’s all it is. It’s [ __ ] money. It ain’t about being the most competitive. It ain’t about a great race. It ain’t about competition. It ain’t about the fans. It’s about what lines my pockets, which I get it. It’s a business. I understand. I ain’t mad at you for it. But you’re [ __ ] wrong. And if I think in the long run, you’d make more money putting on a good show and have a deserving champion like this year. Chase Elliot would probably win the championship just right now. Go N if I had to if I had to put money on it. and it was a regular season champion format. Chase Elliot would be my bet. He still sucks though. He ain’t finished worse than 20th all year. He still sucks though, right? Chase Elliott sucks. But he would be my pick to win the championship champion in a format that you would love to have. Yes. That is the most deserving of a He would earn it this year cuz he didn’t earn it the first time just like Joey didn’t earn it last year and didn’t earn it the [ __ ] second year and didn’t earn it. It’s all [ __ ] You would say Chase would be a two-time champion then? One of them earned if he won it. No, two of them. 2022 he was the best driver. If he earned it this year, he would have won the Wessley Cup playoff in 2022. I doubt it. No, he would have. No, cuz they would have raced differently. They would race differently right now. Yeah, but he does have no worse to finish at 20th. Yeah, cuz he’s very good. Uh yeah, go Cox. Oh, wait. We still got more to go. We got way more to go. Uh, speaking of TV, uh, TNT TNT, they were not I wish they’d blow it up because it’s a [ __ ] F. I would say it’s an F, but TNT wrapped up their five race coverage. First time covering NASCAR since um, 2014, I believe. Uh, 10 year hiatus, 11 year hiatus from the sport. uh and uh had covered the inseason tournament which by the way Todd Todd Ty Gibbs uh won uh this weekend very antilimactically uh 21st. Yes. And Ty didn’t finish like 30th. So uh he won it which you know I like the NC tournament. I went I wish they adjusted a little bit different reasons than other people. I know Riley’s a proponent of uh taking the first race out of Atlanta, but if that means Atlanta goes to the Fourth of July race, then yes. But I do like a wild card race like out of Atlanta in that NC tournament gives you the March Madness type feel to it and it makes more sense to do it earlier than later on in the bracket challenge. Um but you know they anyways in seasonason tournament had all that Tai Gibbs won. Congratulations. $1 million. [ __ ] never won a race in and it still had won a race all years. Never won a race in his whole career. Wins a million dollars. Good for you. Had I had him out first round after Atlanta had just nearly beaten him and we saw how that go how that went. So, um, but as far as TNT goes, uh, the booth was hit and miss. Um, I thought that cuz it was the same booth that they had for Amazon with Adam, Dale, and Steve, but I thought at Amazon they were just so much better. Um, when they got TNT, I felt like they were pressing because the production wasn’t as good. Um, Dale Jr. kept on flipping on his own dick. Um, Steve Lart calling out the wrong fuel strategies and it not working out. And, you know, which I get it happens, but you know, you’re the strategy guy. You like to be right more often than not. seem like he’s been wrong more than more than often. Uh and Adam, he’s been solid trying to carry, you know, TNT’s lackluster coverage of bad camera angles. The Chicago race was a joke. Um that was terrible coverage. Um that was bad, if not um as bad as Fox, maybe even a little bit worse than Fox coverage the past couple years. And you know, it was just bad there. But I feel like the other four races weren’t terrible, but they weren’t good. And I feel like we’re getting a little bit off we’re we’re coming off of Amazon Prime, which I thought had the best NASCAR coverage since Fox in the uh late 2000s in the 2010s, early 2010s where Fox was amazing. Um, Amazon killed it in a good way. And then you go to from that to this where it’s like what the clunky and weird camera angles and um audio issues and you know just a whole lot of mess which you know first year different completely different people I think covering TNT now working for TNT now than they were maybe maybe some same people but um a lot of different turnaround in 10 11 years from what they had back in 2014 when the last time they covered NASCAR. So, I’m going give a little bit of benefit of the doubt there. But, um, coming off Amazon where they called five races for the first time ever and they killed it to TNT, it just makes them look worse than it probably actually was. Overall though, I think the last race at Indie was their best broadcast. I thought it was not great, but it was good dish. Camera angles still terrible. Um, yeah, the camera angles are still a little weird. They need to work on that. But, uh, the booth was way better than it has been all the whole four races up until that point. Um, the pit reporters were pretty solid. The audio issues weren’t as bad as they have been. So, they got better as they went on, but there’s still a lot to improve on. I think they will for year two next year. Um, the pre and post ratio with with Shannon and Jamie and Parker, I’m not a huge fan of. I like it. I do like that they have a post and pre- ratio with with them, but it’s not what Amazon Prime was with Danielle, Carl, and Corey. It doesn’t come close to it, but um still better than Fox for the most part. Um not by a lot, but I’d still take it over Fox and uh got a lot to improve on. I give it them a C minus um for for the for the for their first year back in 10 plus years. Yeah, F might have been a little little harsh. I’ll go D minus. Um it was um it was worse than Fox this year. I think I I I think it was because I had higher expectations. Um possibly. Uh but the production was awful. Um camera angles were almost always bad. Um and when they were at the right one, they would follow a car into the corner. The cameraman would think that they’re no longer on him, so they would [ __ ] You’d see the camera jerk. Jerk. Yeah. And then it would switch. That’s fair. Which is that dumb. Like that’s not appeasing to the eye. No. I mean, it just looks stupid as [ __ ] It doesn’t really affect anything, but like it just shows a lack of understanding or a lack of production uh quality. Uh then, you know, you’ve also got the issues in the booth with guys making mistakes. You’ve got the issues on pit road with guys and gals making mistakes. You’ve got weird commercials. Uh hey, side by side though during green flags though for the most part. You do have that which there are some redeeming qualities of TNT. But coming off a prime I think that’s the biggest problem. He just came off broadcast that just that was damn near flawless and you’ve got this and it was just it was really disappointing to see because you know you had you had higher hopes for it. So you know it’s just it’s really you know we got NBC this weekend which we don’t have NBC this weekend. their first race back. It’s going to be on [ __ ] USA. But uh you know, we’ve we’ve got the USA booth uh and broadcast this weekend to look forward to. Hopefully they do a good job. But you know, there’s no excuse for TNT to [ __ ] this up this bad because the CW started at the end of the year last year. Um, yeah, right before the playoffs, I think, or right at the playoffs with with the Xfinity series. And they were really good right out of the bat. And they have never done any Well, that was NBC production though last year, which is fair, but still CW is doing it this year and they’ve been really good. They have. And there’s no excuse. Adam gets to take a takes a little bit of he still calls Infinity Races, but man, he been he been busy for the past 10 weeks. He has call it Infinity and Cup every week which Mike Joy used to do the same thing but um you know I I just I think that um I don’t know if it’s just you know looking back on the past with rose t and glasses but nothing’s going to meet beat the days of waking up at 10 o’clock in the morning and turning on you know NASCAR uh [ __ ] what the name of that show. Race Day. It was before it was on Speed. Yeah, NASCAR race day. Was it NASCAR race day on Speed? And then you’d go into the Fox broadcast. Yeah. Which was Countdown to Green. That’s what I’m That was NBC. What was NASCAR’s or I mean Fox’s Fox had one too. Whatever the pre-racial was for Fox. I don’t remember. because you’d have NASCAR race day was like threeh hour show on speed with um what is it now? Well, I wouldn’t know. I wouldn’t either. But you had those shows and and you know you had the the speed show and nothing’s ever going to beat that show. Yeah. And then you had the pre-race shows on NBC and and Fox. Nothing’s ever going to beat those shows. Even the the Prime show this year wasn’t great. I mean, it was good. It was better than everything else, but it still wasn’t that. It wasn’t mid to late 2000s pre-race NASCAR show. It didn’t have that same feeling to me. Um, it could be because you’re just an adult now. It could be. Maybe. Maybe. But it doesn’t. And like I said, it’s not College Game Day. And it’s and hell even College Game Day doesn’t have the same again. I think I think it’s because we’re older as it used to. We’re older. I think um you know it’s it’s I might be the get off my lawn guy and I might be the everything was better back in my day guy, but I just I don’t know what it is, but these guys I just feel like they need to try harder and um maybe they need to quit trying new [ __ ] and and go back to what works. Good point. Well, hit that button for at a boy. [Music] A boy. At a boy time. Who’s going first? At a boy. Katherine Leg. Ah, what? She finished 17th this week. Um, yeah. I never saw her. She’s running second there with Laney. She did. She was 30 seconds behind him, but she was running second. Uh, but no, she beat my pick. She did. She beat your pick. She beat mine. Um, 17th place finish in who who the [ __ ] is she racing for? Live Fast Fast. It used to be Live Fast. What’s it called now? I think it’s still Live Fast. Is it Live Fast? Whatever car she’s racing for. BJ Mloud car. I don’t give a [ __ ] who’s driving that car. 17th place finish is a [ __ ] hell of a day for that car. Not a lot of wrecks in the field. Yeah. I mean, that’s a hell of a day. Now, granted, she was like the second slowest car on the on the track, but Josh Maliki, though, zero mistakes. Yep. Zero trouble, zero bad publicity, zero anything. didn’t run out of fuel, smart, understood, you know, her goals. And this is what I’ve been saying with Katherine all year. Just stay the [ __ ] out of the way. Don’t wreck nobody. Keep your nose clean, and the finishes will come. and she’s getting better, you know, and that that’s obvious she was going to cuz she couldn’t really get any worse from wrecking, you know, pretty much immediately as soon as she got into the car the other, you know, her first couple starts of the year. But like I said, 17th place finish for Live Fast. I don’t give a [ __ ] who’s driving that car. I’m happy if [ __ ] Jimmy Johnson, prime Jimmy Johnson finishes 17th in that car. Like, that car is awful. So, I don’t give a [ __ ] who you are. You finish 17th in that car, you’re getting an attab boy. Katherine Leg doing a great job. Doing a lot better than than she has been. Um, and and 17th place finishes is just very, very, very commendable um in that car. So, had a boy, had a girl. Yeah, about to say Katherine Le. Yeah, it’s a good pick. That’s on my list as well. bad boy uh from Indie is going to go to to Bubba Wallace and um race winner. Lock locks himself in the playoffs. First regular season win uh like you said and um first time he can be comfortable going into the last race of uh first round exit Bubble Wallace. He could be he could [ __ ] win the win the race at Gateway or somewhere like that. But uh yeah, it’s just a huge win for him. Uh they had been struggling here, you know, early in the summer. A whole lot of wrecks, a lot of bad luck in the process. Bubba kind of put in a free fall. He was, but no longer. Um he’s on the top of the world. So, um top of the world. So, yeah, just a great job holding off the best in the business. Like you said, Kyle Larson. Uh it’s not an easy thing to do. It’s easy to make a mistake at Indie. um slip up one little inch and you’re you’re in trouble. Especially on a restart uh late, you know, you spin your tires or something like that, you let third place get on the inside of you and then you’re kind of you’re you’re screwed. You’re in a box in the middle and you’re going to you’re you’re not going to hold the lead um going into two. So, uh or you’ll wreck in the process. So, it’s a great job overall. Qualified second. He gave himself an opportunity to have that position for um oh what’s his uh Charles Dik to put him in the position because he had track position all day to take the two tires and and the less amount of fuel was possible to allow them to get out front in front of Kyle Larson in front of William Byron in front of Denny Hamlin and all those other guys that allowed him to to to able to win this race. And then like you said he had this race one with four to go five to go. Larson’s not going to catch him at that point. rain come it easier for Bubba to be like, “Fuck, I’m I’m not supposed to win this race.” They don’t they don’t let him go under red or go under caution for four laps, let him win the race that way. They red flag it, which I agree with. Um, you know, you got to go out there and beat the best in the business on a re on a restart and he did it two times in a row and was able to save enough gas because they were get get a little questionable on gas uh on the second second overtime. So, just all that things going through Bubba’s mind, all the stuff he had to deal with. And um the 2311 lawsuit against NASCAR that, you know, I’m sure is kind of in the back of his mind as well. Races, open car, got to, you know, if he got more than 40 cars, any race, if he wakes a qualifying, he’s [ __ ] You know, not anymore. But, well, yeah, technically, yeah, he’d miss a race. I don’t know how that would work. And the probably we probably won’t know, but you add a boy to Bo Wallace and the whole 23 team. They’re on the cut line. uh no longer. Uh this is uh it’s a huge win for Bubba. Obviously, biggest win of his career and see what he does in the playoffs. So, uh at a boy Bubba Wallace, you can’t do that. [Music] You can’t do that. You can’t do that. My You Can’t Do That from Indianapolis this past weekend is going to uh something I haven’t talked about yet today that uh should be reviewed, and that is Christopher Bell dumping Zayn Smith down the backstretch. Um I don’t care if it was if it was an accident, which I’m pretty sure it was. Um that looked it looked intentional. It looked like, like I said, Kyle Bush dumping Chase Elliot Darlington back in 2020 during COVID, kind of the same thing. Just misjudged it. That’s probably what Christopher Bell did. Doesn’t mean he shouldn’t get a penalty for it. I’m not saying he should get suspended, but he technically right hooked [ __ ] Zayn Smith. He technically did. Well, I don’t right hook because he hit him in the back. So, but I think he should have got a fine or something. Points penalty, something. Not just Oh, my bad. No. Um, well, that’s your opinion. But, uh, Chris Bell has not had a good month and a half. He’s he’s had some bad wrecks, some embarrassing spin outs, and this is another case where he [ __ ] Zayn Smith for no reason. And, uh, Zay Smith was having a pretty solid day running close to the edge of the top 10. Um, and he just gets turned out of nowhere because somebody, you know, one of the best drivers in the sport mis misjudges uh trying to go down there and probably block the guy or trying to get, you know, inside of Zayn or whatever. Um, you make a mistake, you make a mistake. And I’m sure Christopher feels terrible about it. Doesn’t mean you get away scot-free. If you if you shot somebody on accident and they go to the hospital and [ __ ] got to have 10 surgeries and are not what they used to be, doesn’t mean you Oh, my bad. I didn’t mean to shoot the gun off there. You don’t get away Scott free. You still get you still got a punishment to serve. I think that was ridiculous what what Christopher Bell did there for them not to even come close to penalizing him or something in that situation. And I get Zayn Smith. I like Zayn Smith. I think he’s one of the most underrated drivers in the Cup series. And there Christopher Bell who I do not like and he drives a Toyota. I get where y’all are going to see the that that’s just because I don’t like Toyota. But I don’t like Chris Reel and I like Zayn Smith and that’s why you’re saying that. No. If Chase Elliot did that to [ __ ] Ty Gibbs, I would think Chase Elliot would need to get some type of penalty in that situation because no matter you accidentally did it or not, you can’t just Whoops, my bad. We’ll we’ll move on. I think because you can you can you can technically say somebody else could do that accidentally do it in a playoff race and call somebody a championship which is why the playoff format is [ __ ] But you could do that by accident any week. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t as bad as y and I think that’s why people were not thinking about this. I think that’s why Chris Rebel gets lucky in the situation because they saw Austin Hill did on Saturday and it wasn’t nearly as bad as that. So, a Christopher Bell gets a benefit of the doubt because it did not look as bad as what Austin Hill did as a roll on Saturday. Christopher Bell doesn’t drive like that. So, it’s kind of obvious that it wasn’t a intentional thing. Zane Smith gets hurt. Is it 100% matter? No. And was it 100% Christopher Bell’s fault? Yes. Yeah. Duh. But NASCAR should not be in the business of litigating incidental contact. And this was 100% incidental contact. If it’s down the backstretch, get turned into the wall. Yes. 190 mph. That’s That makes it even more obvious that it was incidental contact because there is no reason for him to turn him there. Nothing. There was nothing. There’s What if Chris Bell wanted to get another restart, get a couple more positions? There’s no reason to believe that Christopher Bell would have wanted that. You say that I don’t think he did either, but there’s only Christopher Bell knows. Listen, you can’t litigate. If Caros does that, do you give the same no benefit of the doubt? No, because you can but he did on on accident. Zay Smith and him never had a history because you can look at the history of the driver. You can look at the likelihood that that person doing it on accident is more minimal than Christopher Bell. I can’t I cannot think of a single time on one hand. I can’t count the number of times Christopher Bell has ever intentionally wrecked somebody or that I have ever wondered whether or not Christopher Bell has intentionally wrecked somebody. So before Chase Elliot, I can’t think of one. So before Chase Elliott dumped Denny Hamlin at Charlotte, right hooked him. Chase Elliot never had a history. And Chase Elliot was driving straight and then just drove down the hill in retaliation for an incident that happened 20 seconds ago. Not even two seconds ago. Yeah. Christopher Bell went down. Christopher Bell and and get the end car. He just does that. Yes. Yes, he did. Because he thought he was [ __ ] clear and he’s both of them are driving straight. There’s no incident. Christopher Bell tries to drive behind the 38 car and decides to come down the hill. When he comes down the hill, he misses the back bump or he hits the back bumper by a [ __ ] quarter of an inch and turns him into the fence. [ __ ] happens. It’s racing. It was an accident. We should not be suspending somebody for making a mistake. We should not be penalizing somebody for making a mistake. We should not be suspending crew chiefs or or or docking points or setting people out for [ __ ] five minutes or five laps on a [ __ ] pit road penalty because they made a mistake. That obviously was not intentional. If Zayn Smith wants to go out and wreck Christopher Bell this weekend at Iowa, he has a 100% right to do so. He’ll get penalized for that. That should be the payback. He should not be penalized for that. They should do this like hockey does this. You hit my star, we’re gonna beat your ass. Zayn Smith, if you want to go wreck Christopher Bell, do it. You deserve to be able to do so. But Christopher Bell should not be docked points, should not be fined, should not be doing anything for a racing incident. And that was 100% a racing incident. The cars tore if you dump somebody, you get sent to the rear. But and they have it written in the rule book. It is not in the rulebook for NASCAR. So, they can’t litigate that way. Now, if they start at if if if this offseason in December they say, “Hey, from now on if you’re involved in a collision, you go to the rear.” That’s fine. I would disagree with it, but that’s fine. I would learn to live with it, but that’s not the rule. The rule is if you intentionally I think the way it looks matters. And it looks bad. It doesn’t look bad because it’s obvious that it wasn’t intentional. It’s obvious. I don’t think it’s obvious. I think it is. And I don’t like Christopher Bell either. If you turn down and you spin a guy out, no matter how if it’s accidental or not, it still looks bad. There was one There was one at Auto Club a couple years ago. Who did it at Auto Club coming to the end of the stage? It I think it was the last year that we raced at Auto Club. No, that was Michigan with Brad in Austin. Yeah, Brad. There was one at Auto Club year that year, too, I think. Well, Brad dumped Austin coming to the stage in that might be the one I’m thinking of. But obviously was not intentional. Does not deserve a penalty. Does Austin deserve to be able to wreck Brad the next week? Sure. But that’s racing. You’re going to wreck racing. It happens. All right, get to your You can’t do that. You can’t do that, Trent, for having that shitty opinion. Um, you agree with me until I said what I said. You were like, “Oh, yeah. Yeah, that’s a good one.” And then you then I started saying, “Yeah, because it was a really stupid It was really dumb.” Like, I get it. I get what you’re saying. It was a dumb It was a bad decision. It was horrible racecraft by somebody that’s supposed to be one of the best race car drivers in the world. But I can there’s zero zero evidence that he did it on purpose. So, there should be no penalty. But anyways, all right. If if uh [ __ ] uh Kyle Bush goes out there and dump Brian Priest down the backstretch at uh Iowa because he misjudges it. And if he misjudges it, I’ll say the exact same thing. We’ll see. There’s no evidence to believe that the 20 car did it on purpose. Not saying he did, but it should. And you should not be penalized for a racing incident. And if he didn’t do it on purpose, it’s a racing. If if that happens in the corner, I get it. Overdrow it. It’s a little different down the backstretch. It down the backstretch on a track that you have to get a draft down the backstretch to maintain your speed. Should we start penalizing people at Daytona and Tallaladega for [ __ ] accident missing their their assignments and turning a guy? Because that’s the same thing for turning down the track trying to fall in line and turning a guy cuz that’s what the 20 was doing. He was trying to fall in line. Yeah, it’s different type of racing though. Not really. You got to draft down the front stretch. That’s why they [ __ ] snake all the way down the the the stretches. Anyways, Chris Bell, [ __ ] I’m right. Um I agree. [ __ ] Christopher Bell, but not in this specific situation. Um, I’m gonna say you can’t do that to um a lot of NASCAR fans on social media this week. I’m rocking with him. Um, look, I don’t like Bubba either, but you guys say some really stupid [ __ ] on stupid [ __ ] on my TikTok. I mean, really stupid [ __ ] on the internet. And um, some of them could be trolls. And that’s fair, but you know, and I like to troll a little bit here and there, too. But, you know, time and a place. And Like I said, I don’t like Bubby either, but commenting, “Oh, I wonder if he likes the White Flag now.” Not realizing that the White Flag story was a [ __ ] fake story. That How much sense does that make? Bubba Wallace has never once said that the White Flag is racist. That’s dumb. You are a dumb person to believe that Bubba Wallace said that. You’re dumb. You are a darf. You’re an idiot if you believe that that’s true. All right, number two. If we’re going to bring up garage pools and, you know, certain other aspects of of stupid [ __ ] that Bubba Wallace has done. I get it. There’s some there’s some things that he has said and some things that he has done that have made me not like him as well. However, you have to realize that posting these opinions on the internet make you look stupid. Like you just look stupid pointing like what’s the point? This shit’s 5 years ago. Like who gives a [ __ ] Mhm. Nobody gives a [ __ ] The guy just went out there and raced for [ __ ] four and a half well probably two and a half hours cuz there was barely any wrecks. Raced for a long time. went out there and earned a win. And we’re sitting here saying, “Oh, I wonder if he likes the white flag now. I wonder if there’s NASA fix this race. You’re [ __ ] dumb.” And there’s a word that starts with an R that I want to use, but it’s going to get me banned on [ __ ] Tik Tok if I say it. But you are that you are slowed down mentally. Look up what the word that starts with R that means slowed down mentally. I know that word. That’s what you are. All right. You’re dumb. I do not like Bubba Wallace either, but you’re dumb if you believe that this thing is I if you if you believe these things, stupid. Yeah. Here we go, Chris. But he likes a white flag now. You know that. Yeah. Yeah. Fact. Okay. Yep. Okay. Hey, that was a good one. This is a go by Mr. Moody. Is insane how racist some folks are. He held off the best driver in the series two times. Nothing was given to him. I’m not above a fan, but damn, it’s crazy to see his skin color brought up because he won a race. Couldn’t have said it better. Couldn’t have said it better. I don’t give a [ __ ] if you’re black, brown, green, yellow, or or or white. I do not care. Here’s another Larson led up. No the [ __ ] he didn’t. He didn’t let Bubba win that race. Yeah, the guy that right hooked him in the fence two years ago, three years ago, 5 years ago, whatever it was, big dumb. Um, they let him win. He was about to sue NASCAR, all the drivers and their family, and sue the fans. That’s a good one by That guy’s got to be trolling. He’s got to be trolling. Oh, I seen this one. It’s not right, but it’s funny. Uh, good good thing he won. He would have blamed the clouds for being white. That’s funny, but wrong. That’s funny. Um, oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. Um, here’s another one. Who cares? An exclamation point. Mr. The white flag is racist idiot is just one more reason I stopped going and watching NASCAR over a decade ago. Tim, we’ll be seeing you. Jesus. Darfs. You’re all Darfs. Um, it’s just it’s it’s pathetic. And and and you make it hard. I got more, but go ahead. There’s a bunch more. You got to read them all. But it makes it hard to defend you guys. You people that say [ __ ] like that make it difficult for me to hold a legitimate contrary opinion on Bubble Wallace because whenever I say something negative about Bubble Wallace, people are going to hear me like they hear you and people are going to think that I’m a [ __ ] idiot because I have a negative opinion about Bubba Wallace and they’re going to think that oh, you know, I you’re just a dumbass and you hold this negative opinion because of Bubba Wallace and who you know his skin color, which is obviously not the case. And you make it more difficult for me to have a legitimate argument about Bubba Wallace’s skill and Bubba Wallace’s ability behind the race car, the the wheel of a race car because of the stupid [ __ ] that you say. Just like when people say, you know, wild ass [ __ ] on the internet about anything else, whenever anybody else holds a legitimate opinion, it it makes it more difficult for them to actually get through and and and and be able to defend that opinion without the without looking like an [ __ ] Yeah. So, if you don’t like Bubba, there are many legitimate reasons to not like Bubba Wallace, but you’re making yourself look dumb by voicing it this way. when the [ __ ] just earned the biggest win of his career. And there’s no reason to to think otherwise. So, for that reason, NASCAR fans, especially those on our TikTok and those of us on Hey, we do appreciate you for commenting. Hey, appreciate it. The channel, you guys are [ __ ] dumb. If Bubba Wallace wins every week and this is how our Tik Toks go, hey, I’ll take Golly, I’ll take it, I guess. Golly, I hope Bubba Stars win them more. That’s what I’m saying. help our Tik Toks out. That’s good. Good. Uh good good little rant there. And yeah, people are just um dumb. Dumb. Well, our word. Well said. Well said. All right, we got Iowa this weekend. Second race here in the Cup series. Ryan Blandy won the inaugural one. [Music] Can he go back to back this weekend, Raleigh? Yeah, he can. He won’t. But he can. Um, uh, NBC’s coming back. Yeah, NBC’s coming back this week. We get to have Chris Busher from Prosper, Texas wins at Iowa Speedway. Hopefully. That would be nice. Oh, I’m not picking him, but no. Um, you know, I don’t I really don’t know who to pick this weekend. Um, I get to pick first, so you can base it off that. Yeah, that’s true. But it’s going to be uh short track race and short track packages sucked. Um, granted Iowa’s got some, you know, character and, you know, race a little bit better. I expect Chris to be decent. Uh, but who knows? Um, it’s a day race. They raced this race at night last year, didn’t they? Mhm. It’s a day race this year, so going to be hot as hell. Going to be hot. Going to be slick. Hopefully, that’ll help. But, um, you know, we’ll we’ll we’ll see what happens. I I don’t really know what to expect uh this weekend. So, you know, I it could be a really boring race. It could be a really interesting race. I was put on a lot of good racing in the Exfinity series for years. Um but but this car is just really super hit or miss on short tracks. So, um I’m I don’t know if I want to give an opinion because I just I I’m unsure about what we’re going to get. If I had to guess, I would say it probably more likely than not will be not a great race. Uh but but I am still holding out hope um you know based on last year’s race being pretty decent if I remember correctly and uh you know hopefully this year can follow that trend, but the short track racing so far this year has been been abysmal. So, um, we’ll, uh, we’ll see. Yeah. Yeah. It’s second time coming here, so I think that will put on make it a better race just because these guys are not quite comfortable with this car at this track quite yet. I know it’s very similar to Richmond, but I think it’s a little bit more worn out. It’s got different characteristics in the corners and and all that than Richmond, even though it’s a very similar track uh, size-wise and, um, driving style-wise. I think you drive it very similar to Richmond, but there there’s different, you know, it’s like it’s like Charlotte and um Kansas. Like it looks about the same, but there’s different characteristics in both tracks that make them unique and make them um make drivers better and worse than than other drivers at both those tracks. So, um expecting Pinsky to be fast. I’m expecting, you know, Bly to be fast. Lana, who’s fast here last year, you know, Ford should be pretty good. They’ve always been good on the the short kind of flatter ovals. No, Iowa’s got some bacon to it, but not a whole lot. Um Hendrickk, uh William Byron and Chase Elliot second and third here last year. Larson, uh I think was solid. I think he had some problems though in in this race. Uh then and then Gibbs, Christopher Bell was very strong here last year. Denny Hammond sucked here last year that I remember. Um so we’ll see if he can get it back together. He’s been on a roll here recently. Um Tai Gibbs, we’ll see about him with with Chris Gayart on on the box. Um see if he can do well in Brisco. He’s been very solid here recently. Didn’t get the finish he deserved last week at at Indie, but um he’s been on a pretty good roll here recently. So expecting um those three teams to kind of lead the field uh between Pinsky, Hendrickk, and Gibbs. Um I’m hoping RFK can sneak in there with Chris Busher and be competitive. You know, Chris has got a win at at Richmond. Like I said, a very similar track to this, but uh if I remember correctly, they did not run all that great here last year. So, um we’ll see how it goes on that end uh for Chris. But, um you can see Track sneaking in there with the Ross. He’s been good at short tracks this year. Uh could be a sneaky competitive guy. Uh Kyle Bush, Austin Dylan, Austin Dylan won the race at Richmond last year. You know, Kyle Bush is normally really good on short tracks. He’s been solid dish on short tracks in his RCR career. Um, but you know, we’ll see. You know, I think it can be a wide openen race, but also think that’s going to be pretty cut and dry on who should win this race. I think it’ll be kind of a a main steady guy that um you wouldn’t be surprised that that wins this race. Yeah. What do you got? my pick for Iowa this weekend. Wrong. I hope I am wrong. I just talked [ __ ] about him a minute ago. Give me Christopher Bell. Haven’t picked him yet this year. Um he’s been uh he won at Phoenix earlier in the year. Kind of a similar track a little bit to this track. Um he was very strong here last year, came on strong at the end. I remember you picked him last year and um I picked Logano and he passed Logano late in that race on a different tire strategy. I believe finished like third and Logan finished like fifth. So, uh, Chris Bell has been on a little bit of a rough stretch here recently, but I think, um, he he I think he won Infinity Race or two here when he raced in Exfinity a couple several years ago. Um, so very good, uh, very good track for for um for Bale, I think. And, uh, I think he’ll get it done on Sunday. Oh, damn. Well, the car got full anyway. Yeah. Um, damn. You know, I’ve got I’ve got one in my heart and I got one in my head. Which head? And um I don’t know which one to go with. I I think I think Christopher Bell’s pretty good pick. I’ve got a guy that I think’s going to be really competitive that the head’s telling me to pick, but then I got a guy that I think needs to be very competitive and I think will be that my heart’s telling to pick. Let me guess. Alex Bowman. No. Ryan Priest. Yes. For the heart. Heart is Ryan Priest. I knew heart was Ryan P. The head is Kyle Larson. That’s big dick status there. Have you already you’ve picked him? I know at least once. I think I’ve picked him twice. Oh, this would be dumb. I know. That’s why I’m waiting. No, you’ve only picked him once. Give me Kyle Larson. I think Kyle Larson’s going to be really fast this weekend. I think he’s going to win the race. That’s all I need to tell you. He picked He picked him at the Clash. It doesn’t count. And you picked him at the All-Star race. It doesn’t count. And then you picked him at Vegas. Yep. Well, I’m picking him at Iowa, too. So give me Kyle Larson, heavy hitter this need to win and he’s probably going to win the race. So 15 to 10. So Larson in Iowa doesn’t seem like the Oh, I wouldn’t have picked him. He’d have been one of the last people on my list. You’re an idiot. He’s going to win the race. He didn’t even He was I think he was decent here last year. He’s going to win the race. His teammate finished. I’m telling you he’s going to win the race. Okay. All right. We’ll see. I mean, I’d rather him win the Chris Revel, but [ __ ] he’s going to win the race. If he’s not involved in a collision, he’s going to win the race. It’s gonna be Zayn Smith. Well, with that being said, I got to go to bed. So, shut the [ __ ] up and go Cox. Follow us on Tik Tok. What you got going on this weekend? Watching the race. I’m off. My birthday. Your birthday. We’re going to party like it’s 1994. Yeah. So, I’m gonna be doing nothing because I wasn’t alive at that time. Um uh but uh yeah, I ain’t got [ __ ] going on but an NASCAR race. Yeah, same. I have a good um birthday weekend, birthday dinner with my family Thursday and then have a little party on Saturday. I don’t know what what I want to do yet. We’ll we’ll figure that one out. But yeah, follow us on uh Tik Tok at the Highline Podcast. Follow us on Instagram at The Highline Official. Follow us on YouTube at The Highline Podcast. Follow us on Spotify and Apple Podcast at the Highline. Hit the notification bell. Ding ding to get every update every time we drop an episode. Drop one once a week. We’ll come back with you next week to review Iowa and much more. But until next time, go mean green, go Owls, go. Go Tigers. [Music]

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