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y el Huntrix meal de la peli K-pop Demon Hunters

han llegado a McDonald's.

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Drivers!

Start your engines!

It's going to be funny, carnage,

the cool head on the ground of the hall, boys.

Ho, ho, ho.

Get the f***ing job here.

There's too much time.

Get the f***ing job here.

There's no time.

No time.

There's no time.

I don't care if I wreck the whole f***ing field up over him.

He needs to get some more on.

That was an absolute bullsh**t.

It's not clear.

I'll tell you, I'm on my way.

What the f*** are you doing out here?

People are saying this race is like f***ing idiot.

I don't care.

Let me your guy.

What the f*** is he doing?

Is this an American oiling round show?

Did you ever think you would see that?

All the f***ing that just happened.

Holy cow!

Let's go!

I wasn't late on that one.

Dammit.

Welcome on in everybody to another NWP.

The first, the first one that we've had this year after a bye week.

So, fun story.

I don't think Eric was on beforehand when I was talking about this,

but Danny, I told you I had this new junior hat that I got.

I found like a really good condition.

It's like eight bucks, right?

And it's like this really nice material too.

It's like velvet almost.

It's a great condition.

I like to collect these old ones.

There's only one problem.

I have too much hair now

and it won't fit on my head properly

because I have so much hair now.

Because the people, the hair, Jared, show them the flow.

You have to take your headphones off for our view.

Oh my goodness!

It looks like you could play bass in the 80s.

I'll do a hair reveal.

Oh wow, Danny, those locks, they are flowing.

You can see what we're working with here.

That was good.

The people appreciated that.

I've been there though.

I got a big head and I used to say,

y'all know I used to have big hair

and so I had some hats fall out of my rotation

that once I cut my hair,

I could squeeze them back in from time to time.

So that was a nice pleasant surprise.

I'm really curious how this new NWP hat

is going to be on you

that I'm bringing you this weekend, Eric.

I'll make it squeeze, right?

Squeeze it on, no matter.

I'm rocking my Tennessee Titans new logo hat.

We're in agreement that we're only wearing our NFL team

if your former coach is currently in hot water

over a controversy right now.

I can make a joke about NFL insiders,

but I feel like that hit a little too close

to home on that one.

But yeah, that's actually the funny thing.

It's like my hair's so long now that my daughter

finds it absolutely hysterical

and I start head banging to Iron Maiden.

So good music, she likes it.

She's even started to go back and forth

like this too a little bit,

but she doesn't have enough hair yet

to get the whole logo on.

You both can be looking like Dave Mustaine

and Megan Ethon stage.

We'll be head banging in a year or two

at the K-pop Demon Hunters World Tour

because they're bound to do that at that point.

I'll have to wear earplugs

because I think there's nothing that can be

probably louder than a NASCAR race

outside of maybe 70,000 pre-teen girls

screaming at the same singers.

You mentioned K-pop Demon Hunters.

The actual band who sings like their songs.

Did they go on tour anywhere in the U.S.

or anything like that?

They haven't yet. They've done other shows.

I know they did the halftime show

of the Vikings Lions Christmas Game

this past year.

That's like the most thing you can get

to the actual K-pop Demon Hunters concert.

It would be them, I think.

But we're probably going to get way too off track

really quick.

That was racing still.

This whole wake has been off track.

The Figgie Earnhardt cup race has been an off track week.

The meme is dead on that one. They've made merch of it.

The meme is dead.

It's not dead yet because I see Calypso already

super chatting it.

It's the eulogy at this point.

It's the visual for Figgie Earnhardt.

Born in 2026.

Died 2026.

Right next to 6-7.

Yeah, in the entire off weekend.

We've seen a meme be born and die.

How far in the ground is Figgie Earnhardt?

About 6 or 7 feet deep.

Well, there was racing this past weekend

at The Rock.

And I am, baby.

I am saying the Rock Johnson can let cars race

on top of them like that. That's impressive.

So I like the smell of what he was cooking

in that race, especially the O'Reilly race.

Starting off, William Swalich

gets a breakthrough first win.

I don't think a lot of people, especially after the start,

but probably all of last year,

were expecting William Swalich

to just go out there and earn it.

I mean, he was, I think he led like 80 laps

in that event, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, I kind of lost track to him,

but I didn't quite know how did Corey Day fumble this

because I feel like he had the dominant car at the start.

They lost track position, kind of different strategies.

I think it was the start of stage three.

Yes, I think that's where he fell back.

He was restarting seventh or eighth,

and then he kind of just was stuck there.

And then at the end, they had a loose wheel,

and I think he made an extra pit stop

and had to restart the rear.

He drove back up to 10, but yeah,

I just think it was strategy and not as good

in clean air or in dirty air per day.

That was kind of the thing.

Like Swalich, yeah, he was great then.

He led, you're right, 80 laps.

He was in control of this race.

It was Brent Cruz who for a moment looked like

he was in control.

He actually kind of pushed Swalich out on the way

a little bit there.

They were young guys, muscle teammates,

but you know, they're kind of,

everyone's kind of in it for themselves at this level.

But then Brent Cruz's crew chief left him out

on two tires was the only car to take two

when everyone else in the field took four.

So he lost track position over after a few laps.

And that's when William Swalich just took over.

So I mean, I'll do credit to Swalich.

We did not see anything really special

out of Swalich last year.

He definitely got better as the year went on.

First few months were miserable.

I think we all were questioning,

why is this kid in a Joe Gibbs racing car?

I mean, he won a lot of ARCA races,

but I think, I think if anything,

it was really showing how far our ARCA has fallen.

If the guy who could win nine ARCA races

can't run top 20 in a JGRO Riley car,

but he got better as the year went on,

showed some flashes, big flash here to start this year.

Good job for Swalich.

He did ultimately, he earned it at the end of the day.

I'm looking at the second stage results too,

and he was second.

It wasn't like he kind of lucked into it either,

ran really well.

I've been, I would say of the three of us,

I've probably been higher than on the current crop

of JGRO drivers even before Brent Cruz came in

between Gray, Swalich,

and then you see some of the other ones

that have kind of went in and out of those cars.

So it's like, it's not like he's even been having

a terrible season either.

I think he came into this race,

not great by any means.

I think it was 14th in points coming in.

He's now 11th, pretty well in,

especially after some of the stuff that's transpired.

So, yeah, is he doing as well as probably

that car should be in general?

No, but it's definitely coming to him a bit more,

especially at the start of this year.

I feel like one top five and three top tens

doesn't speak to how fast that team has actually been this year.

And now it's just,

he's finally been able to capitalize on it in this race.

Yeah.

No, I'm happy for him for sure.

I mean, I was looking back at last year,

he still wound up 18th in points last year,

even with the recovery as the year went on.

He still in 18th in points in a JGR car is not good.

It's very, very bad actually as a matter of fact.

And yeah, just got to get more consistent.

You know, he doesn't have to win every race

and lead 80 laps every week,

but we need to start seeing this with some consistency

in the weeks.

He doesn't have a winning car.

You got to run top 10 and hopefully he can start to do that

because yeah, he won all those arca races.

I know we sometimes, you know,

point to the fact that Arca is not nearly as competitive

as it once was.

If you win nine arca races in a single season,

and I don't even think he was full-time that year.

I'm talking, I think you went like nine for 14.

If you win that many arca races,

you got something.

You're not, you're not a bum.

You got to be somewhat talented.

So I think it'll come to him.

This was like maybe the first big step in the right direction,

though.

I'm just thinking it's like welcome to Arca.

We're you're somewhat talented.

Sorry.

It's not even the, it's, it's speed.

There's like, I mean, we saw in the East race this Sunday

or this Friday, Saturday, there's like five cars

that are kind of in one.

It's like, it looks like multi-class racing.

You know, there's like five cars that are in the,

the Le Mans prototype class that are actually battling

for the overall win.

Then you have your like, you have your different like GT classes

and then you have your, your back markers

who are off the pace.

It's just, it's just, there's only a few cars

each week that can win.

And if you're in one of those cars, you need to win.

So all it's did to his credit.

So I'm glad to see some of that Arca prowess

finally showing up on Saturday.

I don't know Riley Carr.

Yeah.

I didn't really put it in the itinerary much

because it, you wasn't, you know,

really great with the finish and anyone in any

way finish last, but Sam Mayer has,

I believe a cylinder go down during the race,

falls a bunch of laps down, ends up DNFing in last position,

falls actually out of the current 12 driver chase

into 13th, 30 points behind Taylor Gray

and a pretty good distance behind the rest of them.

I mean, this has got to be the nightmare scenario

of start for Sam Mayer and that whole team at this point.

I mean, there's just, this is a team,

I think before the season we were expecting to be an outside,

you know, championship contending team.

And they might not make the chase.

I mean, long way to go, but still it's the decent amount

of the way in and they're struggling bad right now.

Yeah.

They're struggling and Parker Redslaw,

he picked up another top 10 this weekend.

They keep proving everybody wrong, you know,

still sitting, still sitting very, you know,

decent in a top 10 right now.

You know, I'm looking at their stat lines and it's kind of crazy.

Parker Redslaw has one top five, three top 10s, zero laps led.

Sam Mayer, two poles, one top five, three top 10s,

94 laps led.

The big difference, Sam Mayer has two DNFs

to Parker Redslaw zero.

Parker Redslaw's going to be like a modern day Paul Menard.

He'll keep your, he'll keep your crap in good shape, I guess.

I think he's overachieving.

All respect to Paul Menard,

but I never saw him as somebody that was like overachieving

in mediocre equipment.

I mean, Anthony Alfredo has been in that 13th to 16th range

in the point.

So it's not like the team overall is bad by any means,

but I don't think anyone's expecting a Viking team

to be ahead of two JGR cars,

a Haas car, a JRM driver for most of the weekends

with Raja, even though he's, you know,

back and forth.

Like to be ninth in points, eight races in,

that's a hell of an achievement for Parker.

Has this equipment like,

that I don't know of any kind of technical agreements,

has it improved compared to what Matt Benedetto was in?

I'm not entirely for sure on that.

They had an RCR alliance, I think, last year as well.

I don't know if it strengthened.

They obviously expanded to a two car team.

I know the owner has money.

I know this, I know the 99 and the 96 were both,

there were a lot of like mid-pack teams and drivers

that wanted those seats.

So I like, I think,

I don't think they would have went to two cars

and they didn't think they could handle the two cars.

Where did Matt Benedetto finish in points last year?

God, I'll say it was.

I'll look it up.

Y'all keep talking.

Well, there's been a strengthening of the Chevy

alliances for sure.

I mean this,

when we were doing our first stream of the year

for the show, like there were,

I'm gonna say three or four new Chevy alliances

and RCR alliances.

So I would have to imagine everybody working that closely together.

It's probably paid off for them.

He finished 27th.

That can't be right.

Is the owner's points different?

No, 26th than the owner.

So they definitely, they've definitely gotten better.

Parker is, you know, he's in the chase at the moment.

Alfredo, for what his work?

Isn't that far removed from the chase?

Maybe last year they got like,

maybe they had like an ECR engine deal this year.

They have a full on alliance.

That's probably the difference.

Cause yeah, that's,

that's a 13 plus position difference in a year.

That's, that's not just the driver.

That's the whole team.

Driver, definitely I would say helps though.

Cause Parker has been somebody who,

like I believe it was rocking him last year,

where he all of a sudden popped up and like,

was it without a prime?

He ended up having a top five finish and was pretty damn good

for a lot of the year.

Like, you know, and then this, this might be a good point too,

is like they could have also slid into that spot that colleague had.

True to some degree.

Resloff was not impressive last year outside of rocking him.

He finished behind Brennan pool in better equipment.

He had an engine deal most of the year.

Brennan did not and they came out of the same shop

and Brennan outran him most of the year.

So I would say Redsloff underachieved last year.

I was more impressed with Redsloff at Jordan Anderson racing.

Have we, have we seen Parker Redsloff get a chance

at what we'd call top tier equipment yet?

I don't know if he's had any part-time starts of anybody.

This is probably the,

well, maybe did he make a one-off somewhere?

I mean, he was with Beard in the Cup Series for a couple of races.

But I think, I think this is probably the best car he's been in

and he's really starting to show us whatever the knife's all about.

He's one of those names that I would watch for.

If like, I don't know, just for an example,

if a Jesse Love gets promoted to cup of RCR,

he could be someone that I would watch for to get a chance

with an RCR or someone like that.

Yeah, why not?

I do want to give Corey Day credit as well, not to move on,

but Corey Day, I think this is seven straight top tens.

Even with the wheel, lug nut, loose lug nut, the bad strata,

whatever happened, you know, lost control of the race,

he still led like a hundred plus laps, was really, really fast,

still kept his top 10 streak alive.

Like this, I feel like it's only a matter of time before he gets

to victory lane and gets his first win.

Yeah, I mean, even when he was having those problems earlier

in the year, getting into people and things like that,

he's still running top five and top 10 in those.

Yeah, he has the most top 10s tied with the Allguyer

this year in the series.

Wow.

See, he's now led 164 in a granite of those 164.

I'm double check here, but I believe like 118 of those

were in the rocking hand, but still 164 laps led, not bad.

I think that's third in the series behind Love and Allguyer.

He's running where a hundred cars should.

I don't care what series it is.

A hundred cars should run top five, top 10.

I think the experience is why he's a little lower

than those other guys that would be in the car.

But by the end of the year, by the time it gets a chase

time, I mean that the gap right now from Love down to Brandon

Jones, second to eighth is less than 50 points.

You know, I don't think he's catching Allguyer, but I don't

think at all it's unrealistic that he can't jump

from fifth in points where he's at now to third or second

in points entering the chase.

And at that point, that's where you got to be to

compete.

Like I would say if the improvement keeps going up

steadily, like we're thinking it's going to, if he's

able to run where a hundred cars should, he should be

competing for a championship this year, which is not

unrealistic at all.

Which I think even in that good of a car, if you're a

rookie to be a championship contender off the bat, I

mean that puts you in a league company.

Like Chase Elliott, William Byron, they were

championship contenders off rip.

And they're both two of the best guys in the cup

series today.

So that certainly bodes well for Corey Day's

development if you're looking at that kind of track

record.

Yeah, I mean, you can go further back too, guys like

Truex, for instance.

Redick.

Maybe not, yeah, Redick, another one too.

Not, you know, maybe didn't have the greatest

starts to their careers, but we've saw it work

certainly top tier cup eligible Dale Jr.

back in the day.

If even I go that far back, so.

Sure.

I mean, how he does this summer for Corey Day

will be a huge influence into where I feel

his career goes.

Because I noticed as a Bowman fan and I'm

sure if I recognize this, he may be a legitimate

candidate to replace Bowman in the 48 if things

don't look better there.

You know, you know, hold on.

Do you guys think you don't think?

No.

Could Corey Day drive the 48 next year?

Next year?

It seems to be handpicked.

That seems early, right?

I'm not going to jump the shark on it yet,

but what I'll say is,

if Bowman has to miss another month or two,

what if there's a weekend O'Reilly has off

and all the sudden Corey Day is available to do

a one off in the 48 do a little starter test.

The thing I'm starting to get worried about

as a Bowman fan, we haven't heard anything

from him.

He's not said anything.

No one's really seen him that I can tell.

It's just been radio silence with him.

This is supposedly Bristol as long as we really knew

with all guy are being in the car and at this point

we haven't heard anything else.

I don't know what's going on from anymore.

Well, and, you know, I won't go too far down the rabbit hole

of like, not I'm going to say conspiracy,

but of like, recklessly speculating.

But I do remember when we were at Darlington in 23,

I think he was hurt around then and, you know,

he was on the box.

I remember he looked like he was feeling uncomfortable

and he looked, but I watched him.

He was at the track.

Different kind of condition though, I feel like, you know,

like this is he probably needs isolation,

very focused rehab.

But I think my point more is so if he were getting close

to being back, you'd think he'd be at the track

acclimating more rather than away.

So he might be back though, you know,

on a week and all this talk is good to see anything.

It'll just like if it's like a random doing a zoom

with Bob Parker's anything, you know,

as he tweeted probably has even probably tweeted anything.

I don't know how active is he much of a Twitter of a tweeter.

Anyway, I'll check that real quick.

He has not tweeted since January 15.

I can't say I blame him.

Yeah, honestly, that sounds healthy if you ask me to cesspool.

Yeah.

I'm hoping though that that we can stave off the

conversations a while on that side of it.

But I do think long term, like that's that would probably be

the goal.

Yeah, I'm not trying to rush him since February 8 or it's

pretty dead there.

I'm not trying to rush Corey Day into the into the cup series.

Actually, I don't think he's ready for that.

I was just throwing it out there as like, well, shoot,

if he keeps running like this, I mean, you know, maybe

Hendrick sees that as an option.

But I'm just saying it may be a situation that's kind

of more like what's a good one kind of like how I

guess Suarez was suddenly frosted into Carl Edwards ride,

something like that.

That's kind of how more more feels like that.

It's just it's just the fact that who's in who's

in Hendrick's pipeline, a bunch of young guys.

I think it's just it's going to take him getting

wins and showing a visible leap up over the year for me

to say that he's even part time cup ready.

I mean, he hasn't even got a win yet.

I know he's doing better.

But but first year I again, I do think he's going to

I think he's going to get multiple wins this year.

And I think that he is probably going to be a championship

contender by the end of the year.

It's a long season.

And the interesting part about the O'Reilly season is

I believe they don't get off race until like after

race 16, I want to say there's like no off weekends

for the O'Reilly series.

I want to say through I want to say through June,

like early June or somewhere in there.

I think it's like Michigan.

They've run more races than the Cup series so far

unless you include Bowman Gray.

Well, I mean points races wise is going to be like

that for a while.

I want to say the Michigan weekend is the first

weekend they have off.

So so it's like he's going to be like if he were

to be in the 48 as a trial run, it would

definitely be probably in the summer because I

think there's like a span in August or like a

five weekend say race twice.

Hopefully we don't have to come to that though.

Now talking about somebody else that was the head

in the conversation of whether or not to rush

them more through the ranks.

Cleetus McFarland made his first start.

And I got to say the Cleetus effect is real.

I noticed it on my post-race stream.

I noticed it in my comment sections.

I noticed it even when they panned to the

grandstand at different points like the dude

makes waves.

But his start with the 33 team and RCR

equipment which is way better than it is in

Cup did not go so good.

I believe he finished 32nd six laps down if

I'm correct.

And that's right.

And it was I mean I think he went like

three wide lap four for 30th and nearly

spun three times in the race did end up

spinning maybe not all necessarily his fault

but still like seemed like way out of his depths

in this race.

I'll give credit for one thing.

He completed 194 more laps than I expected him to.

Did I do your playing with fire with that

prediction?

I'm like, well, we're going to get so many

people who don't know a damn thing about

NASCAR ripping your ass up on that one.

I don't care.

The performance still wasn't that impressive

in my opinion.

So then that's where I kind of lead us

into this.

Did NASCAR make the right decision not

approving Cletus McFarlane to race at

Talladega Super Speedway?

I mean, I think they did.

I think objectively, I agree.

We saw, you know, that he was off the pace

most of the race at Rockingham.

You know, if maybe he would have pushed

harder and qualifying, but you know, if not

for Nick Sanchez and am racing pulling out

he probably doesn't make the show with

the lap time he put up.

So he was off the pace, a few incidents.

But you know, he kept the car mostly clean.

He didn't ruin anyone's day and he did run

pretty much all the laps.

So it wasn't a terrible performance.

I think it was somewhere in between.

It wasn't an exceptional wow, but it

also wasn't, you know, I don't think it

was embarrassing by any means.

It was just proof that, hey, he needs

more reps before you're going to put

him at this high of a level.

And I think NASCAR was right to not

approve him because Talladega, while

he was on track to drive per se, there

are, the margin for error is slim.

And if you do make a mistake, there's a

higher chance of you wrecking a lot of

cars and putting people in very dangerous

positions.

And so when it comes to Cletus, there's

clearly natural talent there.

I mean, the fact that he spun out

four times, but never overcorrected

and didn't hit the wall, right?

Like there's clearly a good feel for

the race car there, but it's the

decision-making, the decision to go

three wide early in the race, the

decision to run in the truck.

Like those decisions, I don't think

NASCAR can trust him when they know he's

going to be in a great car at the front

of the packet Talladega in a few weeks.

So I think their hand was forced and

they ultimately had to make this decision.

I think they were reluctant to because

you talked about the Cletus effect,

they see it too.

I mean, so, but I think they had to

make the right call and I'm hoping

he has a good time in ARCA and trucks

this year because those starts will be

not allowed for Talladega or that saying

if he gets more reps in,

could he hop into Echo Park

or Daytona later in the year?

It's that he's approved

for all short tracks.

So it's not like it, you know, because

I thought at first before I watched

his video and like they really

put out the full report, I thought it was like, oh,

he's going to give it a shot at like Kansas

to get approved for Dega.

And based on what he

said with his schedule, like he might not have an opportunity

to race Dega till next year

based on the way

he did so much better stuff.

Yeah, so, because that's the thing

I would love to see him be able to hop

into Kansas. I'd love to see him hop in a Dover.

I'd love to see him hop in a national

super speedway and get some reps

on some bigger tracks before

we get to then would love

to see him at Chicagoland,

would love to see him at Atlanta,

would love to see him at Daytona

later in the year, but need to see

more reps. But if his schedule

is literally that,

we already know he can't run a full-time season

in NASCAR basically, if, you know.

Well, and I'll say, I'm a surprise.

I know people are clowning me in the comments about it

that I put a video in the video

I said, like I purpose, you know,

purposely said it this way because it's exactly

how my thought process was.

I think everybody's was after

the O'Reilly races. I would not approve

him. I don't think he's put up enough

in any way to do so,

to justify it. But

I'm not surprised, and I, you know,

that NASCAR probably would.

They've already meant the rules enough

of approving him to have an O'Reilly

ride after his only truck experience

was crashing after five laps at Daytona

on his own and not

really putting up anything worthwhile

in ARCA. I believe

it wasn't the main ARCA series. It was

ARCA East that he raced

at Rockingham, right? And he finished

4th. That's what he's supposed to do.

It's been really fun

to look at the responses

to all of this in the comments sections

because I've never seen so many people

who don't know a damn thing about NASCAR

tell everyone who knows everything about

NASCAR or more than them about NASCAR

how much they don't actually know about

NASCAR. Like, I've seen so many

Cletus fans come in and be like, it's the first

time I've watched NASCAR. It's bullshit, man. I've seen

what you can do in a crown, Vic. And it's like,

yeah, this is a whole different thing. I think

Tommy Joe Martins kind of put it perfectly

and it was more expounded upon

with Bozy and him back and forth

is that Cletus

is way more talented

than anyone in really the general

population. But he's not

as talented as like the back of the

O'Reilly or Cupfield as

the average NASCAR driver.

He's that perfect middle ground

where you can at least justify him though

giving those shots

to race up there. I want to see him

race more ARCA and

so he's been fully approved for by NASCAR.

I want to see more of that because

I do think he has what it takes

to be good at this.

I and I want him one day

if he's able to make the Daytona 500

because one it's good for NASCAR. But

the way I want to see him do it is I want to

see him do it the right way and be good

and actually compete not just spin out

lap two of the duels and miss the race three years

in a row.

I mentioned the crown Vicks. My dad

for years was a sheriff's deputy.

He drove a crown Vic for a lot of that time.

The crown Vic

was designed to primarily be

a police vehicle.

It did get a lot of use as a taxi vehicle

as well. Ironically enough

but it's primarily meant for

police forces to be

an easy to

drive yet

sleeper quick car

that could keep up in high speed chases

and

there's no offense by dad but like

he's not like some speed demon or anything

but he could drive that thing fast to be

needed to. It's designed

for a common person to drive it

fast. I'm just front and out there. I know

his are probably souped up a little bit more

but a crown Vic is just

a crown Vic. This is literally what I'm

talking about right here. Like

we've all seen the comments

before he's not projecting trust

me. We're chronically online. We see

the comments. There are plenty of people

using that to justify it and it's like

it's a mix.

What you've run into is you've run into people

here's the problem you've had is you've had

Cletus fans who I think are a little ignorant

to NASCAR but then you've had NASCAR

fans that frankly are a bit ignorant to Cletus

and I think that's where you've butted heads

and that's why nobody's been able to fully agree

on what he's going to do, how he's going to perform

but I think now that we've seen

Cletus at a tough track

in an O'Reilly car, I think now we

know he's

an Arca level driver right now which again

he's only been running stock cars for a year

is extremely important. The fact that he

I know it's just the East race but the fact that he ran

top five at Rocky Ham the other day in the

Arca race, like that's incredible

considering he's only a year into this and he's

not driving one of the tip top teams

or for one of the tip top teams. Like he is

a good talented driver but right now he is

an Arca level stock car series driver

and I think I know the three of us

you won't hear any of us complain about him running

Arca and I don't think we ever have because that's

the kind of place for someone with some

ability like Cletus to go learn to get

reps to see what he's got. I just

think it's too quick to rush him up into

these big, big O'Reilly series races

where there's just so much more on the line

and the talent level, the competitive is so

much greater. And I want to go step further

I want to see him do short track stuff

and honestly if he can hold his own

I want to see him do more

truck stuff. I think

it's pushing the line a little bit but

that's how he's going to learn.

I think Eric you brought

it up in your video and I've seen others bring it

up. It's very similar on a smaller

scale to the Danica Patrick situation

where Danica, there was

something there. People forget

that Danica did run

decently enough. Almost one

O'Reilly series race

ran decently in

JRM equipment. She just needed more

time to get the

talent all put together.

Everything all put together. And

they rushed her to cup

and she was not ready for it

and I think it ruined her

honestly. I don't think she was ever going to

be Kevin Harvick, Tony

Stewart, Ryan Newman. I don't

think she'd be a top 15 cup driver

but I think she would have been

decent enough on her

own. And that's what I don't

want to see that happen at Cleos McFarland

because I do think that the

talent is there. I do think

that the willingness to get

better is there. But

people thinking that he can just

run at Tavadega and that he's going to fly

up top like a bald eagle and win the race

or run up front are delusional

and people also who think that

he's not good enough to be an even

arca at this point are also delusional.

It's crazy

how so many people have latched

on to what the crazies on each side are saying

rather than what literally

everybody like us has been saying of

no, we just need to slow burn this a little bit.

That's all that needs to be done right now.

I think the reality is the reality.

He is cut out for arca right now.

He's kind of comfortable in arca. He's going to run arca

and I think even trucks now, he's ready to start

testing his skills in traffic in a

truck. No doubt. I think no complaints

here from us. That's what's happening

and I think we all wish him the best of luck

because he is fun to watch. He's charismatic.

We joke, we banter

with his, you know, hardcore fans

but, you know, NASCAR

is missing some of that passion.

Some Chase Elliott fans are a little crazy

bunch but like, I mean, we haven't seen

a truly passionate riled up

fan base in NASCAR since maybe

Prime Day Learn Heart Junior. So what

Cletus is bringing to the sport, I mean

is great. So we're all rooting for him

here and I think now we can just enjoy

this is what I said at the very beginning and I got

dragged by some folks. Let's enjoy

the journey. Alright, like let's

watch him continue to get better and better.

Was it fun seeing him almost win

that arca race?

I think there's a chance he could be in contention

at the arca race later this year. That's very possible.

Excited to see that part of the journey.

Getting dragged for saying something reasonable

two weeks before everyone likes it just

means he said it two weeks before Dale Jr.

was said it. Ever wrong? Just early

sometimes. Yes.

Imagine the hype if Cletus could win

a arca race at like Bristol, you know

the big stadium, you know.

That'd be tough. I think he could win

he's running towel day at Arca in a few weeks

like he could win that race

legitimately. Yeah, I would pick

him but he's probably one of the top 5 or 6 favorites

to win that race. Objectively.

Just, just put, just get Cletus

into a, it's not venturing

on mortar gun. What is it now? Like nitro

motorsports? Nitro.

Get him into one of them somehow.

Like watching what he did at Daytona

in the arca race, he ran, he kept it clean

ran top 5 most

of the day, had issues out of his control

avoided the wrecks just fine

still was competing for a

top 10 at the end and honestly

given a better car I think could have easily

competed for the win. If the jack doesn't

break at Daytona he's probably in the top

5 on the last lap with a shot. Definitely.

And you know what, knowing him probably

goes for it better than anyone else in the

field probably would have. So yeah

I think a year

from now he'll probably be ready

to at least give it a shot.

I think he's going to be racing more and

I think he already said he has a bunch more arca races

lined up, more truck races

and they've already had the

contract and everything signed with RCR

so when the time comes

the O'Reilly ride is going to be there. It's not like

this is just always it's went caput

it's all done. No, like it's going to be there

so no I

I'm looking forward to seeing him actively

progress and for us to be like damn

he surprised me on that one so I can't

wait. Like I think we all would say

we were a little surprised by how well he ran

in the arca east race. I think we're all like oh dang

like that was really cool. So I'm looking forward to more of those moments

which I think we will

get those over the next few months. If you trust

the faulty graphics department he won.

Did you see that?

No, I didn't. Did they put up a win graphic?

In an interview it said race winner on the bottom.

I'm just like oh that's going to go

everywhere. Why would they do that?

Come on. I think it was just a flub.

Yeah, well who's who's

it wasn't Fox that was like flow or somebody

right like who's flow and then they

I think they put it on the 2B channel too

which was a really smart move by NASCAR SPARP.

Speaking of the cleatest effect

looking at the ratings this past weekend

O'Reilly got a 0.65

rating and a 1.16

million viewer number so

plus 12% from the same

race last year in ratings

plus 11%

in viewers and also I believe

up 4% from Darlington

which was the same weekend for

O'Reilly last year is this.

So

you know I

I get that maybe someone expected

to get higher because I will say I think the peak

at just under one and a half million

is kind of low

I'm surprised with but

it is a track that's not really that

you know popular with a modern

NASCAR fan yet

and I believe the finish was also starting

to go head to head with the start of one of the final four games

I'm not saying that's like a reason that should

be higher but

O'Reilly just keeps winning this year

the deal with CW is paying off

more and more each week with

that side of it at least

they're continuing to average well over a million

viewers

per race is really great I would say

I thought the viewership would be a little higher keep in mind

the truck race at Daytona

granted I believe that was on Fox but

it was it's network versus network

that race got almost 1.4

million viewers and Cletus was in that race

as well at least for five laps so

I guess I was a little surprised that the

O'Reilly race didn't come close to that mark

but you're also to your point comparing a Daytona

branded race to a Rocky

and branded race

Tony Stewart was in that race

I think that's what I was going to say is I think that like

the Cletus effect is real but I also think like

you know let's be honest he's got millions of subscribers

you know he gets over a million

views on pretty much every video he does

but realistically only about a hundred thousand

or so of those viewers actually watch

the NASCAR races live

his in-car stream had an average

viewership of like sixty thousand

pretty much the entire race fifty sixty thousand

so he's certainly moving the needle

especially in the digital space

I guess I'm a little surprised there weren't more network

TV viewers tuning in but I mean

hey plus ten eleven percent whatever you said

that's legit good for the O'Reilly

series that's big ones for sports in general

these days and

O'Reilly outside of when

F1's in America and like

the Indy 500

O'Reilly is usually the second most watched

racing series in America pretty definitively

at this point now so

just saying maybe

maybe that next TV deal maybe NASCAR

and the cup series

can have a few races more on the CW

maybe that way

go for it

I was gonna say I wish I knew what these numbers

compared to ESPN

back when they had sole position of the

nationwide series

those are yeah those numbers are hard to find

these days I've tried

I've tried to find a lot of them and outside of like

Daytona I really can't

think of a company that had a

very similar deal had the sole

sole position of the broadcasting of one series

I'd be very curious

I've noticed

I've noticed them say recently there'll be

some races where it's like best viewership

since like 2016 or whatever

and wasn't that around the time ESPN

and O'Reilly dropped O'Reilly

was it 2014 or 16?

2014 was their last year

okay I thought maybe

15 was their last year but you're right

thinking like okay that would indicate maybe ESPN did

get some pretty huge viewership even for

nationwide back in those days

you know what would be the real test

would be if you got

trucks on CW and you

saw what their ratings could be

like I would I'd be very

curious on that one because

like I get that they have the consistency

of FS1 most weeks

if it's not on big Fox

but Fox doesn't give a damn about the

truck series it's literally there to just

fill airtime

they don't care

just look at the amount of times they have

remote broadcasts like

50 miles on the track with Jamie Little

still in the booth

speaking to the truck series

Corey Heim gets sole possession

of fifth all time on the truck

wins list with his 25th career

win though not

uncontested completely

I mean Kayden Honeycutt put on a charge

at the end there

I think it's kind of like symbolic

of you know

Heim still showing he's the

he's the

what's the word like he's the example

but Honeycutt

reminded everybody I'm in Heim's

truck I'm coming my time's

coming

Yeah I definitely could

sense I'm sensing frustration from

Honeycutt at this point he's been close to a couple

wins already this year still hasn't gotten

it and that's I mean he knows

that truck won a dozen races

a season ago with

the guy who was out front here at Rocky Ham behind

the wheel so I think there's a chip on Honeycutt's shoulder

to nobody expects him to match

Corey Heim's record or even

even I think three or four wins

this year would be a successful season for

Honeycutt but it's got to

be frustrating watching you know the guy

you supposedly replaced still beating

you in different trucks each

week I mean they all said that

we're almost friendly fire with Tanner

today sort of in the outside

lane in the final laps

lap traffic sort of you know Honeycutt maybe does

get Heim if there's no lap

traffic there I'm not sure I mean lap

traffic I guess helped him close in as well

it's a little bit of this little bit of that but

I could see Honeycutt being frustrated for a

few reasons but Corey Heim guys you said

Jared he's fifth all time now stands

alone he only needs four more

wins to get to third all time

to be third solely

on his own would only be behind Kyle

on Hornaday Junior and so

the question I was on my show this week

can he do it this season

he's gonna be part time we

don't know how many starts he's gonna make this year

he's made three already

can he win four more races

this year

see that's the hard part for me is because I don't

know how many more races he's running

let's say he runs like nine or ten more

races which maybe I don't know if that

that would mean like slightly more than half

the season or about half the season

yes yes 100%

he gets at least four

I mean he won almost half the races last year

in a 25 race span why can't he do it

in ten yeah but I mean

but he's he was in a better truck last year

the consistent crew chief now he's like

split in time between different teams you made

against my pick before Darlington and he still

won yeah but what I was gonna say

was look at his wins this year have been

like I don't want to say they're not

asterisk like that he earned the wins but

like they've not been dominant like Darlington

tires at the end and made it happen

rocking him if lap traffic races a little

differently he probably loses rocking him

like so he does have two wins but they both

the nail biters I'd say like last lap

past type wins so

like I don't know is he gonna win

I'm a big Heim guy I'd say yes I think

he gets it this year I'm a big believer I think

he'll do it but there's a reasonable

argument why he won't I guess and that

is simply his trucks not quite as good

as last year you know it's not as stable

of a situation so I don't know but

due to credible obviously very very

very very talented

I'm looking at the stat lines

and it's just wild

leads the series and wins tied with

honeycutt and toppives

the only reason he doesn't have as many

top tens as honeycutt is because

he hasn't started as many races as honeycutt

4-3 on the top tens there

has the most laps

led in the series 2-12

to the next closest being

Ben Rhodes with 93

I think the real question to pose here

is should he be championship eligible

which I say

yes because

if you have enough points

to qualify I mean this waiver

stuff should have been left

in the playoff era like

the waiver was there for the full

season rule of the playoffs because

you could hypothetically

win and then miss 10 races

purposefully if you want to take time off or whatever

and still be chase eligible playoff

eligible if he

starts half the races

and is still fourth or fifth in points

yeah he should be allowed to be

in it and if he can get that full time

ride so be it I think this is a

needless rule

if they announced

tomorrow that

he's just going to run the rest of the schedule

I think

then you could give him the waiver and say you're fine

go ahead and get in there but

it's because of the fact that he's not committed

to the full season it's where NASCAR

thinks the issue

I think I'm with Jared I think it's a

rule that needs to be amended and probably

should have been amended with the format

change this off season but it wasn't

I'm not a big fan of changing the rules

making special exceptions mid-season like I

I still think it's a little silly

Matt Kenseth got a waiver in 2020

but that was the old format that was

back then I think a waiver may be made more

you know whatever it's an old different format

this is a new format I generally agree

but if you pointed your way in

I don't care how many races you're in

if you pointed your way in you deserve to be there

but that's not the rule so I don't want to

see them necessarily change the rule mid-season

but I would be fine with them changing it

at the start of next year everyone starts

over clean slate knows what to expect

I can plan accordingly

it makes it essentially

useless to look at the point standings

right now he's leading the points

but he's not he's not going to

like he's not going to win the champion

he's not going to run enough races as far as we know

to win the championship he might finish

like you said 6th, 7th, 8th maybe

but he's not going to win

I think for now it's funny to look at

a little annoying but at the end of the day

I mean this field is

razor thin right now

like when it comes to the talent pool

the ride pool

I mean he is a race and a half

over 11th

if track on would just go ahead

and just pull a trigger and say you know what

we're just going to put you in

we're going to put you in a truck the rest of the year

because you ain't got anything full time

I think he would be capable

of walking up this championship a few races

like into the truck chase

I mean would it last how early

would he have clinched the title last year

if it was this format I want to say

I don't know if it was fully two races

early or it was almost nearly two races

early but it was something like

like somebody ran through those on X

when the format was announced

an absurd lead he had

I think he had like over a hundred point lead

I was going to say I feel like he'd be

more than two I feel like he'd have locked it up

three or four races early honestly

it might it might have been I mean in this

format the way that the reset is

I'm fully expecting

in the next two or three years

somebody probably in the lower series

especially to lock up a championship

early like if somebody

is going to have a dominant season against

I can like I said the field

is really thin I mean Justin

Haley including

Heim is 10th in points

right now he has one top

10 all year um

Tyler Anchorum is technically

the 10th guy and Stuart

Friesen is currently

in the chase Ben Rhodes is

and he's not the great looking at

who's actually going to be running

for the championship it's probably honeycut

Riggs Chandler Smith

Majeski's in there

and then we can have the debate on like

Geo and Acus

the owner's points are where this gets

soup is actually much more competitive because

like Heim because he won

put the one truck top of the owner's

points ahead of the 11 and then but then

you have the niece 45 is

third in points

like that's like wow okay

and then you've got like the spire

seven is fourth you have

like the

Tricon 5 is 10th

they're top 10 in points owner's points

so like you mentioned what you said

Justin Haley is 10th in drivers

that truck is 16th

in owners that's about where they've been running

all year yeah yeah so I honestly

when it comes to trucks right now with how many

cup in different drivers and you know

all star free agents are rotating in that you

almost have to look at the owner's points to really get a good

feel for who's been running where

so it is weird it's a weird

situation right now that series

find itself in to

the a public

schedule for the rest of your trucks

chase goes Bristol, Kansas, Charlotte

Phoenix, Talladega, Martinsville

Homestead

I mean if the right

guy got hot

at the right times

it's not impossible

that Talladega could

wrap up the championship

and trucks do knows yeah I

mean I still think of honey cut

I think honey cut the fact that he

was on a race yet and is still tied for the leading

points just shows you how good

that truck like Scott Zippadeli

TriCon they have that thing dialed in

I think if anyone's going to lock it up early this year

to probably became a honey cut just like Cory

Heim would have last year

so we'll see

we'll see what happens

I just

why is he not in cup

or at least O'Reilly at this point money

yeah even O'Reilly I think

wasn't he going to go to Sam Hunt for some races

Harrison Burton showed up and was like

I have money for full time and

you know Dean Thompson's got money so

well I'd say I wish there was some

kind of system like I know the charter

system makes it freaking impossible

to do this now but we're like

the O'Reilly champion could have a year up

in cup as like a proto charter like a

37th one and like the truck

champion could have like an ensured

ride for O'Reilly just

you know it had a little more incentive to

winning those two but I just

that would be cool in a perfect

in a perfect world yeah that would be cool I don't know

maybe they could do something like that without

altering the model that's how

Jim Frans gets his cup team he can own

he just he has to have the O'Reilly

champion from the year before oh sugar

on the screen

wait he did he just replaced

Danny

that's funny I heard bang bang bang

on the door yes I thought

doesn't Indy next do that like there's

like a pipeline for the champion

like that that should I would love

for that to be a thing in NASCAR

yeah they can make that happen

I'd like I'd like that that'd be neat

all right

well it's been a short week

short when it comes

to racing so short

review reaction let's go to

the super chats on

this one let's do it

I think there were a few

before the show I'm

trying to see how many

this is the earliest one that shows up for

me is that from today

yes okay so

sloth nerd

says let's all thank

Emperor Hendrick and Dale Vader Jr

for executing order 66

on the Ford Council

Rise of the Chevy Empire so glad

I jumped a Toyota

yeah only one

Ford I think was on track

at Rockingham and

only one Ford is on the entry list

for Bristol in the O'Reilly

series and they did confirm

that today

we Josh was saying we can't

keep calling on Goodyear to bail us

out for the short track package tire where

can only get a race so far

we don't want to have one of these races being

worse than 2008's brickyard

400

saying on the show agree

keep working on the cars

secondly I think that having

preseason Thunder return is great

about that in the second half the more

on track time drivers have the better for

all of us but I'm not exactly sure

about the stages being inverted at Talladea

we will get to that in the second half don't worry about

that

and thirdly to be blunt Gleason McFarland

is just not ready for NASCAR

not approving him for Talladega was a smart call

although very late one

check we just got covered

yeah

Bailey saying I have a bold

move bold take I don't know why the hell

we did it

I have a bold take one he all can steal

on non-super speedways and road courses

traditional ovals

Kyle Busch will not score a top 10 for the rest

of the year

he doesn't have one yet I don't think right

I don't think so

at any track it's more realistic than

people want to think

yeah

and another bold prediction anytime

high in races and trucks he'll beat Honeycut

each time oh that would

if I were Honeycut I'd be pissed

if that happened

I don't think that's going to happen

to just feel like you're good

but you're not good enough to beat him

Nick saying thank you for making

my night at work better go 77 and 12

no problem we love we love being on here

and love seeing all y'all

Alex saying hey hey guys

sorry I haven't been around for a while

well good to see you back

how is everyone anyone else going to

Norfolk'sboro I'm pretty good

in Norfolk'sboro

yeah sorry unfortunately not

Calypso Figgie Earnhardt born

from Davey Jones Locker

well they're making merch out of it

so the meme is dead so

RIP Figgie

Palm Tree says

just did a 3,600

mile six-day trip from Idaho

to Houston, Dallas and back home

stopped at Chetters and Fort Worth

the best chicken strips ever

also Eric I promise

there's less crowded places to live

y'all drive

crazy down there

I need to go

experience that and be part of it

I'm going to go visit Eric Easton this weekend

the roads in Dallas

and Houston for that matter do be pretty

crazy it's one of those situations

where I've grown up in it so I don't even really

bat an eye at it but when I go to other

like quote-unquote big cities and I see

like there can be traffic but the roads are smaller

there's no huge overpasses I'm always

like oh yeah I guess that is just a big city

Texas thing huh so yeah

it's kind of a culture shock for people who

don't live here

Danny I'm going to give this next one to you

there he goes sorry

if you smell

what the rock

is cooking

I like

what Peter sent you and me Danny

oh Rockingheim

oh yeah

Rockingheim ring

I knew Scott was going to change it to this

as soon as it's on Michigan

great to see you guys

I don't know about y'all but

with the warm weather and new tires

I have a bad feeling the race won't be

good on Sunday I sure hope

I'll be wrong also nice hair

Kurt Cobain

he did look like Kurt Cobain I was like who

he looks like someone on a stage I could just picture

hey wait

I got a new complaint

I'm not going to jump the gun and say the race

bad this weekend but

if you've been enjoying the cheese

greater races I wouldn't bank on that

I

like hold on I gotta put this one on smells like

gasoline spirit

luckily I think I have

a better wife than he did

um

anyone who's watching any of those documentaries about him

knows what I'm talking about

the rock needs a cup date

ASAP cup needs it too

what do you guys think

what are you going to take off

what are you going to replace spring phoenix

hmm

yeah maybe

um

like if I could do it without

two martinsville's I don't know

you take that don't you can't say that

don't take that even though I'm a criky bobby

I agree with that forget who said it

I forget who said it

I think I might have heard it on door bumper clear

they made a great point that you wait for the track

to age a little bit and then maybe the cup cars

would be on a good show here

this might be more spot on

people are saying spring darlington we've survived

on one darlington for a long time

we could probably be fine with that again

with just a set of 500

I don't I don't love where this conversation

is going honestly

it's very hard because you know it's got to be

something probably geographically

close to that area

I'll put you on blast Danny I think spring

bristol after sunday I think

we have a lot of fans not too worried about

what happens to spring bristol going for

I mean I'm hey I'm right there

but hey for once

we don't have our full forecast from

Jeff Bork this weekend but

I do generally know what the weather is going to be

like this weekend and

at least we don't have the usual spring

bristol weather this weekend

that's true that's good I just

I'm kind of at the point now

with bristol I've

been here before and I've kind of

I've liked it when it flared up for a bit in the

late 2010s and early 2020s

and now with the next gen it's back to where it was

for me before

where I'm kind of just ready to be like screw it

guys like can we just go back to what it was

pre-2007 I know it's not going to be

one for one perfect but

like like reconfigure it again

reconfigure it back to where it was like

SMI has has righted wrongs

before can we please make this

the next big symbolic gesture

make the thing asphalt again for all I care

honestly if you can't fix

the racing at this point because it's all

three series now that aren't good at it like

let's not pretend that O'Reilly and trucks is going

to be good like they're going to be

mediocre races the fall

race is the only one anyone gets excited for

anymore either put dirt on it

or make it how it was before or make it asphalt

that's it for me

best I can do 40 degree banking

many many Atlanta

best I can do it

40 degree half mile

would be nuts

you have to run the caution laps on the apron

you would you probably would

how would that lap work you basically got to

ramp yourself and then use the four momentum

dude

the G's that they would

sustain probably going around

that or higher would be insane

that's it

basically race like a

like a half pipe for skateboards

all right

I think where did we stop

I think we can do probably one more if you want

let's do this one

official

J Fendi almost an official Jedi

says

Clippy

says best bi-week of my life

racked

4,000 miles to see a k-pop

NMIXX

concert

I'm not that attuned to that side of it

my niece

and nephew are on

the family but I'm not

in Canada and also

caught the Artemis 2 launch

in Florida the same week

also saw a reddix 500

win car on the way back home

damn sweet very fun salute

to you from a midwesterner because we're known

for driving that is good

on you that's amazing

all right that'll do it for an extended

super chat stage break

with the rest of them at the end of the show

just like real stage breaks

yeah

yeah don't remind me

but we won't be taking as long

because we don't have really that bad of

weather but we do have a little bit of

a lightning round

that graphic goes

always too fast so people see me making a

weird like

face

so first off of course we have the

podcast channel that we re-upload

different things we actually have the full

15 minute

NASCAR wifely podcast segment

on the channel for y'all to see

so if you haven't seen it already subscribe

you would have if you had subscribed

we're actually 98 away on that channel

from hitting 1k so that's pretty cool too

heck yeah

we might need to do something

on there as like a celebration

at some point maybe like do a simulcast

so you can watch it on both channels

or something one night

also I want to thank you

for voting for my mom we will find out the

results on Friday

for that side of it last that we got

the update she was 8th before

last week's podcast

so we had that a big push on twitter

big push on youtube

big push during post-race stream so fingers crossed

we're going to run

into a little pickle of whether or not we have to

move the stream or not because that game is on a

Wednesday night and if I'm able to make

it I would like to if it happens

it's for a good reason

we made a valiant effort everyone

best of luck

going to the nascar side

of things cbs sports

will be merging with tnt

sports in quarter three if all goes

accordingly I'm assuming that

the channel probably won't change this production

company I would assume

I've lost track of all these

media mergers at this point

can't can't be

any worse than tnt's

production to start last year that's for sure

nascar full speed

will be leaving netflix may 7

so if you haven't seen the first two seasons

of it already

you you have a month

to see it

nascar has hired its first director

of ai this is more for like ai

strategies this is not to just you know

go on whatever's replacing the saura app

and just make random crap

just I had to I

had to say it because if I didn't say it

beforehand or right away people

be like oh now we're going to see

more fox sport style ai

slop and it's like no it's not the same thing

I'm not saying I support it but it's a different

thing altogether

probably not going to be popular either way

the chimera will come back by the way

and means it's more than likely going to

stay the chevrolet body

for the cup series

and then next week

on april 15th we'll be

on runway

Eric's channel

and we'll be joined by grant

from auto racing analytics as our

first full

show guest of the year I have to

technically we had our first guest

last week to open the show

so that should be

a lot of fun as well but that is

the lightning round

there we go again

so fast

there were

also some

lines from this past week I don't know

if we have a face or some

there's no sound effect for this

wow

spooked Danny over there

NASCAR is taking some

swings at the super speedway

racing and trying to

either improve it or at least this year

from the sounds of it kind of put more band aids on it

let's start this year

for talladega and more than likely

also Daytona and the second talladega race

there's no specific

lengths to the stages given but it

sounds like the opening

stage will be much longer and the

final two stages will be

short enough to complete a full

fuel run without

at least hypothetically having

to fuel save during

them what are your guys

take some more than likely it being a hundred

or maybe even more than 100 lap

opening stage at talladega this year

I mean I'm open to trying

I think at the end of the day

you're going to see a lot of fuel saving in

that first stage you know if they have to make

one or I guess probably just one green flag

pit stop potentially in that sequence

but I'm all for you know second half

for the race if they're able to go more flat

out what I'm afraid we'll see

and you know every race is a little different

cars evolved a little tracks are changing

all constantly weather changes all

I'm worried what people will see is oh yeah

that's right this car sucks at super

speedways and it's going to be gridlock

nobody can make a move

hopefully I'm proven wrong we've seen moments

like there was enough

disruption in the packet summer

Daytona last year that we

saw that crazy three wide finish

third lane came out of nowhere and it was like whoa

like so I'm not saying that we can't have

good racing with this car package at this

type of track but

it's not easy it's not

easy to get to that point so I'm worried that

you know we'll go from one problem to another

but that's why not to get ahead of ourselves

excited to hear NASCAR is bringing back off

season testing we'll try some

different aero horsepower

stuff to try and improve the actual racing

product at super speedways

for next year and beyond that's very

encouraging but for now I think I saw

people in the chat saying it this is a

bandaid hopefully makes a positive

difference but time will tell

I fall into

the camp that

I see a lot of people saying it in our

in our chat no stage yellows

I'm fine with stages

I like the purpose of stages

for points purposes

but stage yellows

just disrupt the natural

flow of a race if

they're gonna crash

and cause a caution to come out

naturally because they're fighting to get

those stage points then so be it

that's the natural

part of the race in my opinion that's a natural yellow

developed because of the goal

of getting stage points essentially

if that happens so be it but

I don't know I think

I think I'd be completely fine

with just stages

happening then we just keep the race flowing

you know you get your points when we reach a certain lap

I've been I've been on that train for pretty

much every track I'll say it definitely

is a bandaid

and and I get the idea

that

you know if it's like

144 44 as the stage

breakdown let's just say

that you probably get

a majority of the commercials out of the way early

maybe you have a wreck and you can get some out of the way

under commercial under caution too

and then have

the best racing for the longest amount of

time at the end of the race

that might be the thinking of it

if Fox doesn't go to commercial with six to go again

or whatever it was

I'm not letting that go man

that was bad

but

NASCAR has

basically neglected the super speedway

package for Daytona and Talladega

for five years now

they've really not touched it too much outside

of flaps to keep the cars on the ground

which is a good change don't get me wrong

strictly safety changes nothing to really change the racing though

and

I think that now

that in general the short track

racing has gotten a little bit better at least better

enough that people aren't actively

like falling asleep during

the races the entire time

we'll see about Bristol I am genuinely worried

about this specific

you're right

but they've raised horsepower to a lot of places

they've hit a lot of things fans have been talking about

this is next up seemingly on the docket

I don't see really

how this is going to change much

I mean maybe

they might not fuel save as much

if it's a 100 lap green flag run

and it gets super spread out or something like that

but this to me is just

let's make the racing the best

that we can do at the end that way when the most

people are watching they're not bored out of their minds

the preseason testing

that's what I'm excited for

preseason

it's not just a nostalgia trip it's this is needed

we need

a lot of on track time to get

packages right to get

people attuned to their teammates

and to their teams right

before the biggest race of the year this isn't like

the Indy car where our biggest

their biggest race of the year is

a few months into the season

and now they have actually consistency early in the year

so they can build that stuff up

and then they still build it up

in the middle of the year

our first race is the biggest of the year

we need to nail this

every year it needs to be a banger

every year when you look back

from

basically when Fox got on the scene

just pure racing product take all the stuff

and things like that away just from pure racing product

if you looked from about

2001 to I would say

2012

some of the worst races people think of

are the rained out races which generally

weren't that bad

and maybe the tandem races if some people

didn't like them they were bangers every year

whether it be gen 4 or

COT and it's just been hit or miss

ever since like we need the

biggest race of the year to be awesome

we need a lot of build up to it

it was there in 2022

when they did preseason thunder

and it was awesome there was like 5,000 people

just in the fan zone alone

there were people all over the grand stands

there was a ton of hype around it

and I really do believe that that led into

how good speed weeks performed

in February that year

I believe it was part of it at least

so I absolutely love this

change I think this should be a permanent fixture

yeah I mean I like it

from an entertainment building hype

it certainly can't do any harm in that regard

but more importantly it is just

like you said earlier they've neglected

the drafting package more or less for 5 years

they've improved the short track stuff

they've added the horsepower

next is super speed ways

for all the reasons you said you need Daytona

to be fun year in year out

and so I'm just excited to see

what adjustments what tweaks they can make

they've seen and I know Atlanta

is a different layout than Daytona

they guys can be hard to replicate that

but they've seen that hey

we can get good drafting style racing

in the next-gen era

is there a way they can replicate a form

of that at Daytona Talladega

that they're comfortable with with speeds and stuff

we'll see but that's the part that I'm most excited about

is that they're actually going to work on the package

for the first time in quite some time

I mean I

if they do two or three days of testing

and

test a bunch of different things from

power changes

basically plate changes

to drag changes

I think they can probably nail something

especially since a lot of the drivers have been vocal

about the same things

it's not like they're starting from scratch here on this

we just

handling needs to matter

in the sense that we need to spread the pack out

a little bit

and

you know

I don't know if they'll nail it right off the bat

but it can't be any worse than what we got now

that's how I feel

yeah

all right well

I know it's early in the show for this but y'all

y'all have some fun

it's never too early for fun Jared chat do you want to

have some fun

we're talking about to be in the chat right now we need to save the chat from

themselves

I like a little bit of fun

fun is very good

we're having fun

let's speed

let's have a little fun with this thing then

predictions

so each of us will make two NASCAR motorsports

or show related predictions

we're going to keep track of them each week in our accountability session

and we'll try and be concise

but we can play fast and loose with it

so it is what it is

Eric said

Corey LaJoy would be the best finishing ram at the rock

I am red hot right now

on of these predictions

it's kind of scary how good you are this early

it's like time levels of good

I said the winner of both

Rockingham races would pass

Tech this year

fourth place didn't

dude it was taking a while for that to come out

I was like oh shit

uh oh please god

Danny

said Clears McFarland would not

complete 50 laps at Rockingham

I was bold you know can't blame me for trying

give you credit

Eric with a commanding

61.54%

lead I am 44.4444

repeating I know that's going to be a meme

and Danny is

33.333

repeating percent

so honestly decent percentages and then Eric's is just unnatural

all time

I'm still at 37.2

with the lead Eric at 33.79

Danny at 32.39

so if we have Eric

you lead us off

I'll start

with this one because I'm afraid somebody might take it

we had this conversation earlier

I predicted I'm going to put it on paper

put it in writing set it in stone

Corey Haim will finish

this season third all time

in truck series wins

that's a good one

very nice

alright I don't know if there's a concise way

necessarily to

say yes or no to this

rather it's just that you'll know it when you see it kind of thing

the cup race at Bristol will not

be a tire lottery in any way

like there might be flat tires at some point

it's not going to be

pretty obvious what or not it is

we know what you're saying

and I think you're probably

you're saying it won't be a cheese grater race

pretty much

if Larry Mack pulls out a cheese grater though

I think you lose this prediction

here's what it used to be

but that would be

the definitive way

this is what I got here

we've got this tire here in the booth

now

now go to good as a road ranger

yeah

use this app

are you using it yet

oh man

okay

this one

isn't necessarily a layup but I do feel like

it will probably happen

Toyota will account for the most laps

led on Sunday

in the 500

like

any combination of Toyota

drivers will be the most laps

led together

see I could see that

but I'm going to go

with something that could still also be true

like my prediction

and your prediction could both come true Danny

but it sounds opposite

my second prediction is that Kyle Larson

in a Chevy leads the most laps

on Sunday

that's a good one

I like those class

that is very true that they could both still

because like Larson could lead like

150 laps and be the most

then like 5 Toyota drivers

account for the rest of those laps led

exactly exactly so we'll see

if we both get that right we should get double points

Jared

that would be like me thread right down the middle

um

Corey Day

will have 2 or more

wins this year in the O'Reilly series

I think that he's going to come on strong

at the end of the season

solid

Knoxville Mayor

Glenn Jacobs also known

as Kane and WWE

will say

Go Vols in his command

as Sunday's grand marshal

I like these

ones because it's like everybody's going to be watching

that one and I'm going to have it in my

my chat

for my post-race stream because I always have it up before the race

everyone's going to go Danny's right

or Danny's wrong

I see it every week we have predictions

at first I was going to

make a prediction that he

and Josh Dobbs would be there

because I've seen something earlier in the week that

that Glenn had shared

like I know me and Josh Dobbs would be rooting for

in regards to that Tennessee truck

that's in the race on Friday but then I've seen

it was later announced hey they are going to be there

Josh Dobbs is going to be the honorary

starter and then

Glenn Jacobs is the grand marshal

so both of those two

are going to be at Bristol this weekend

see an interesting prediction

would be if the pastor not made

comments about

Artemis or not

that's if he's even on TV

he's one of the people that may not even make it

into anything with a micro-run

in front of him too

it's teed and Glenn it's Fox

so they'll probably mess it up but it's teed up

perfectly you got

you got people going up to the moon

you got the pastor not on your

broadcast

and they're probably going to be like

we're going to talk about this person that

Michael who'd you find

I found daddy die down here guys

he's still lurking around

ask her a prayer that we can talk about him

he is a free agent

oh man

alright those are our predictions

will probably be really right or really wrong

and no one between on them

but it's now time for you guys

to hide the chat

because it's time for

that hide your wife

that's a throwback

unless we would

hide our wives after a little bit

so

Eric and Danny are tied at 38

all when it comes to random

driver of the week

Danny got on the board for the first time in a while

with Nelson P.K. Jr

we were way off

but Eric

we had a

a lot of the other random driver from last week

Eric can you see this on screen

no I did not

oh

we had him because

Danny died didn't punch him yet

anyway Eric had

three of the last five with Tony Stewart

we had Sweet and Natalie Decker

and I got y'all on Speedy Thompson

gosh no one's ever heard of that man

Jared that's a made up character

from the video games

I think that wasn't that that movie

about that anyway

that's one to get

that's one to characters in cars ain't it

I was thinking speed racer

Speedy Thompson that's his actual government name

alright this random driver

is a native of Houston Texas

David Starr

I'm sorry

you can't do that

that's my hometown Jared

I was thinking there were other drivers from there

I don't think I mean

Brendan Poole kind of

I'm not going to say him at this point

I don't want to know

he is correct

oh my god

he drove the Whataburger car

of course I'm gonna know where he's from

I mean that's where he currently lives in Frisco

I did know that actually

okay hi chat

we're back already

I didn't even get to make a figure

and heart joke yet

I'm sorry Jared

that was tough but you can't

sorry that's tough but like if I was doing this

if I gave a Rockford Illinois clue

there's like what a couple names I'm sure

maybe we jumped like that's two that you can't give that one away too

Chad Canals

yeah you take Canals is where's Danica

from isn't she from near there

I feel like we're out in another one

we're getting way too fast

I know I do you have another one

do you have like a backup

I'm putting on the spot here

now I feel bad

now you made it shorter

I could let that one slip through the cracks

the point was there for the taking

I had to grab it

see this is why people need to tune in every week because it might be really good

or it might be like this

see I was thinking let's make it so

freaking obvious

you'd guess somebody else

I'm actually trying to think who else is from Houston

the Lobonies are from Corpus Christi

Bushers from Prosper

I'm not saying shit

that's tough

sorry guys

how many times has he done this at this point Danny

it's like the second

or third time he's done this

I should go get my whataburger hat

to commemorate this

right

I need to look back and make a compilation

of every time we've had one or less clues

for the random driver

I legit didn't know if you just played the correct

sound to be funny or not there

you know what A.J. Foyt

I think he is from Houston I could have guessed A.J. Foyt

so yeah there was a chance I would have gotten it wrong

alright

sorry guys I feel bad

I actually feel bad I don't even feel excited

about that one I'm sorry

wait did you have some other fun clues

what else did you have about him

what are the fun facts about David Star

when he wrecked Noah Gregson out of a win

no I had

that he started in racing as a picker

member at the age of 14

so there's that

um

let's see

the fact that none of us have tweeted about him

that's a little surprising

let's see

first race is at 16

in street stocks

let's see

a lot of different statistical ones

he ran a lot of different numbers

has he when did he last race

he hasn't raced this year has he

I don't think he's raced this year

I got last year in like what 22 23

something like that

I think he ran some O'Reilly last

like you know Xfinity last year

oh I do have his last cup start was last year

and he did DNQ from the O'Reilly race this year

oh okay well it's been more racing than I thought

you drove for Randy Moss

I feel like there's a lot of these drivers on this list

have ended up driving for Randy Moss at some point

I should actually like

what was his race last year like probably the 66 I'd say

I think so

but yeah with Randy he's

straight cash homie

and he was the first driver

for the cup series team

Levine family racing

at Texas I believe

I want to say it was like 2011 or 12

it was my COT

yeah it would be it was that boxy like red

and blue and yellow 95

with with the

whoever the sponsor was on the side of it

to a little bit the way that like Kyle Busch

used to have

yeah I'll put that one down there

those are some good fun facts sorry chat

see I love like

it feels bad about it and I'm like

this is funny as hell to me

yeah just just goes to

show you how how

how well I know my Texas drivers

there's not that there's not

that many of them that made it big so

yeah

let's go to Bristol baby

so

there is a new tire compound

for the cup series

it's gonna be less temperature

sensitive so

we'll see

the only real difference

when it comes to the field this weekend is that Chad

Fincham will be in the 66 for garage

66

as for the O'Reilly side of things

there will only be one forward in the field

the 5 of

J.J. Yaley

Connor Zillich

at this point yeah

Connor Zillich will be in the 1

for J.R.M.

the 9 will be Carson Quaple

Jordan Anderson gets

Raja in the 32 this weekend

and Kyle Larson

for J.R.M.

I feel like I already know who to put in as a first pick on that side of it

the truck series is actually

pretty damn stacked this weekend

it's like 7 cup guys this weekend

yeah it's leech central

for some stacked for others

Corey Haim will be in the 1 truck

Ricky Stenhouse in the 4 for Nice

Chase Briscoe in the 5

TriCon truck

Kyle Busch in the 7 for Spire

Chastain in the 45 for Nice

C-bell with Helmar Friesen

in the 62

Suarez in the 71

for Spire and Carson

Hosevar the Hurricane

in the 77

truck

as for the races this weekend

we have the Tennessee Army National Guard

250 on Friday night

for the truck series

250 lap 65-65

120 is the breakdown

7.30 p.m. Eastern time start

on FS1 and Fox 1

Chandler Smith

the defending winner on that one

the suburban propane 300

will be the O'Reilly Race

300 laps 85-85

and I believe

130 is that adds up

I believe that adds up I'm not mathin right now

also a 7.30

Eastern time start on the CW

and P-R

Kyle Larson the defending winner of that one

and then the Food City 500

125 125 250

the breakdown 3 p.m. Eastern time

on FS1 and Fox 1

PRN also gets the radio side

with Sirius

Kyle Larson also the defending winner of that one

with a pretty good shot to

break that endless streak

One note and you may have mentioned I might have tuned it out

JLR says

Carson Ferguson also making his first truck start

I believe for Ram

if I'm not mistaken

he was the race for the seat runner up

so he gets this like one off start

I don't know if this is his only start

I think they talked about running him at like Martinsville

or something instead somehow they ended up on Bristol

so good luck to him

weekend weather this weekend

our friend Jeff Bork meteorologist

he actually had a deaf in the family this week

so didn't get the full

full weekly report from him this week

but basically

we're affecting dry

conditions highs in the 80s

maybe the

maybe it can be weird Tennessee

when it gets hot and something might pop up

but I'm not expecting too much this weekend

it's going to be a real good weather

this weekend

pick points

Eric has kept the lead with

134 over the chat

11 over me and 12 over Danny

so all of us actually

got closer

I thought I was going to rise more next

I did get the truck win of Heim

I think you finished last in the O'Reilly

race though

because I had love yeah he was good

and he finished terrible so that'll do it

did the most wins combined

for all of us right now

he's got four

one cup two O'Reilly

and one truck

I'm the only one without a cup win

Danny you must be just like checkers or wreckers

I guess that's why you're down in the rankings

Ricky Bobby you're at a first

or your last

well Danny

you are going to kick us off

on the predictions for who wins

the truck series

race this weekend so who do you have

winning trucks

this truck was so hard because

we got so many guys in it

but there's also so many

just like good guys

in the truck series field like a Heim

like a Lane Riggs and

it definitely looks like the chat is leaning towards 34 right now

but I'm

I probably won't take the 34 away from him

I just feel like

I'd be dumb to not say Kyle Busch in a

truck race at Bristol so I'm going to go Kyle Busch

it's a valid choice

well I'm going to stick

with him because it works every time for me

and it is Heim time

going Corey Heim

yeah I feel like I might regret not

taking in but

I'll go Kyle Busch

he is in the one again this week same

as last week Heim chat

I guess they're going Riggs

yeah I think they're going Lane

the most consistent I've seen from them

I'm a little surprised didn't Chandler

Smith win this race last year

they're going with his teammate

let a lot of laps

yeah

well

I got to think about this for a moment

can you spare me one second

I think we can

I'm going to let Shuggs out he seems like he's ready to go back out of the office

come on

I

I'm also so

I think Chandler I had Chandler

as my number two I'm going to stick with it

I'll take Chandler Smith

alright well let's

go on into the O'Reilly side

of things who wins the O'Reilly

race

I'm going to double Kyle and go Kyle Arson

couldn't have seen that one coming

monkey

a monkey

then I'm going to go with the only guy that actually was in

a zip code that wasn't the rest of the field last year

I'll go all guy

also good pick chat we got

I think the chat is important

this is really important

I got a pivot now

this is so important

I'm seeing a lot for Figgy

Larson and all guy were my top two picks

so if we have improving it before

like we will give you the

meme pick if you guys

Aaron Hart we will put up the name figure

of no number there beside it because that's what you chose

well just put a random meme

I've seen some for day but I think they're leaning

towards the one which this week

is Zillich

Zillich

I think they're serious on the one now

they'll take Zilly

get silly for Zilly boys

I

oh man

I'm going to take

for the second week in a row

I was a little unimpressed with his brunette

Rocky ham but he's in the nine this week

I will go Carson quaple

and that car looks beautiful

by the way that high rock vodka car

with the day glow orange

popping on it looks amazing

it does and I didn't realize

I'm used to Bristol spring being day race

I didn't realize this is a night race for them

that's going to look incredible under the lights

so next

day though who's going to suck Danny

Daniel Suarez

his average finish at Bristol is atrocious

I might have actually picked him for my

truck race winner

but I'm going to pick this guy to suck

in this race just because I don't have any faith

Kyle Busch

yeah Kyle Busch is a trendy

suck pick just because like at Bristol

anything outside of the top 10 you're

scratching your head like what went wrong

and I just feel like we never would have thought

I'd say today where he sucks at that track

I feel like we've been asking what went wrong

with Kyle Busch in the eight quite a bit

the past few weeks so I agree with everyone

I think Bush has two years

so I feel like me being

at his current last win

is like I was in a moment that was

like a turning point in Asgard history

because ever since then man he has been

awful

blue Jimmy put

fox in the chat

I think they might be going with me

I've seen a lot of eights

yeah I think it's Bush

someone's already put their underdog pick in

Zane

I like how y'all are picking Kyle Busch

and I'm picking the car he's more likely to go into

next year

Derek did you give yours

yeah I said Bush I know that's not original

but it's at this point

so Dark Horse or Underdog

I guess he's still

Dark Horse here he has

one here before but I'll go Chris Buscher

okay I'll go Hurricane

He was

I might regret it in the

win picks depending on what way it goes

but he was bad fast

last year top three

and I think in the fall I think 11th

and spring

well in the spring he should have probably finished

second or third I mean he was right up there with Hamlin and Larson

all race and this at the end

I think the team had like huge malfunction

in the pits that put him in 11th

I think we'll get a top five this weekend

if this was a high

tire wear race I would say Brad keselowski

but because

it's probably not going to be that's my

guess right now nobody really knows

I think I have to agree host of ours

the clear clear cut

Dark Horse sleeper

and did the chat have chats going to

praise I think they're going pre so I thought about

saying as well it's a good pick

I think that's a really good one

alright moment we've all been waiting

for who is going to win

the cup race Danny

who you got

been waiting on a while to say this

and I have the first pick so I'm very confident

if I'm going to go up this guy

Ty Gibbs

Wow

first off the board

it's bold but I

can see especially with how good that team is this year

he was fourth on my list

I thought it's time

he's had the momentum on his side

and it's a track where he can get it done

if you leave him on the board I got taken Kyle Larson

I think he can break the streak this week

and a chat wanted him so

have it again

I'll be real

at first I had Denny

as like I had Denny and Larson

as like 1a1b and I'm like I'll just pick

which one when we get there

and I had originally had like Hamlin

in that corner

but I'll go with Larson

I might regret it but I'll go with Larson

chat we'll take Hamlin

yeah I'm definitely seeing that

well

I think we all kind of are on the same page here

because I had all my Gibbs, Larson and Hamlin

not in that order but I had them in my top four picks

so the only one left

on my mini Bristol Mount Rushmore

is Krista for Bell

he's got a good average

and a share so that's a good one

yeah he feels like a safer pick

we did win the night race

that really helped me last year

secure that championship towards the end of the year

that really helped me

hopefully Ty don't let me down

but he's been on a run here lately

if there's any time to do it

it's got to be now

he's been

really damn good this year

yeah

I think that was the first time I

coughed into the mic without muting myself

all show

maybe we'll go the whole show next week

um

let's go and finish up with the Super Chat

cool down lap

let's do it

we left off right about

here

Jake's

Jake's 98

Arka, talent is here somewhere

talent is here in the nitro motor

sports car then that's about it

Chris John says

as a big big fan and defender of Cleetus

I agree with the decision to not

approve him for Talladega

I am bummed but it was 100% the right call

from wasn't in a day

very true

poetic

NAP erasing says

NASCAR on CBS returns in

2027 return merger

one could only hope but I

doubt we're going to get it on big CBS

we'll end up on CBS

we'll show you a summer time that would be better than NASCAR on CBS

we'll be on

we'll be on Paramount Plus

oh god

hashtag

rowdy to the 48

and then Cleetus to the 48

isn't a CBS center the same parent

companies like Nickelodeon could we

get a Nickelodeon spin off like

NASCAR broadcast

SpongeBob calls the Daytona 500

well we have like a NASCAR

show on Nickelodeon and it

conveniently ends when the new

AMC show about NASCAR starts

Jonathan says hey Jarrett Eric

and Danny go blue and go 11

might be a good week for you

a really good week

Twin Spinner as a Cleetus fan

I'm not happy that NASCAR made

the right decision but

because I really wanted to see him run Daga

but they did make the right

decision respect

respect

does Cleetus have a talent

to run a memorial in the middle of Texas

turn four no

but the call to not let

him in Daga is also right

run more laps Cleetus

that's what we should have said last week

the goal for Cleetus is to not have this

made

after the race so yeah mission

accomplished there good point

for what is worth

Chris Wright is back in truck series

trying to improve

it has been if he

does not have

below the apron

hope to still see Cleetus

after racing the Daytona

after racing the Daytona 500

one day

racing Daytona 500 one day

I don't want him to just

check the box and never see him

in NASCAR I want him

around

kind of like you know

Elio Castroneveth ran the 500 one day

will never see him again most likely

and I would

I was even saying in my video that like

if you want to just be a super speedway ringer

with beard if he was good enough to do it

that'd be cool like Brendan Gaughan

was at the end of his career exactly

yeah

see Vikings all day

I think not approving Cleetus

for Daga was the right call he brings

eyes to the sport but he's not ready

I find his fans overbearing but his haters

intolerable had to mute

a few

timelines

accurate

and Martin fans as Kyle

Petty is a hypocrite he started in

cup without much experience no O'Reilly

no trucks just a name

so he shouldn't be pointing any fingers

at Cleetus that said

I'm glad they denied Cleetus for Daga

yeah

times have changed a bit but yeah

I mean I get that I get

they still they still made

Kyle Petty run an RCRA race at Daytona

so I could run

other stuff but yeah

that's what you're saying

gonna carry my case of beer

in Bristol every night this weekend

in my

is it shitty backpacker

that is an actual thing it's like

a cooler brand

meant to impersonate or make fun of Yeti

gonna raise hell

gonna raise hell praise Dale

and give it

a little stone cold hell yeah

this weekend I think I have that still

so

do I have it here

I said give me a hell yeah

thinking of which I think

probably Wallace is running a WrestleMania

car this weekend at Bristol I'm not sure

I think you're right I think it's either this weekend

or some other upcoming race but yeah

WrestleMania is next weekend so I think

it's gotta be this weekend he runs it

makes sense

Ford is the Hawaiian bird who went extinct

it's not real on Instagram so you should know what I'm talking

about now yeah

let's see Scott I said

this on the post race truck stream

but I'll say it again if Ross Chastain

can get a waiver then Hyme

should get one too because that's right because Ross

did get one in 2019 if he will

if they will make it work he will go

full-time then I could see

them doing it just like they did

if Ross that year I don't even remember

the Ross situation was it just he was not

full time so he start he was

okay 2019 he was supposed to be

in the Chip Ganassi car in the

Xfinity series then a DC solar

situation happened that deal went away

so he started off running for JD

motorsports and then he got better

opportunities to go run nice

equipment he did a few part-time stars and they said

hey can he just come run full-time

and then they granted him the waiver to go

full-time in the truck series

I think you know and then that press

said if TriCon comes out tomorrow and says

hey Hyme's gonna run the whole season then

yeah I guess that press has been set and

NASCAR might change the rule mid-season is what it is

Jeffrey

says Cori Day to the 48 and all guy

retires Bowman to the 7

got it all planned

I'd take it Bowman

and Kyle Busch can have a boxing match

for the 7 I bolt bring

Figgy home

like how like ominous that sounds

Alex my bold prediction is that

Redick will get at least 10 wins

this season I even have

a $10 bet with a friend of mine

on that now I felt

bold saying 7

before the

chase starts I don't know about 10

this year

Jeffrey King left 3 in a row here also

Bristol the 11-20 and 5 are

our favorites tires

this is Rockingham for

places spring Darlington

and Texas needs a

repave progressive banking

maybe

Ryan it is says

40 degree Bristol is a fair

ground wall of death

Gavin

me and my dad are trying to

decide our next race to go to

should we go to Bristol Darlington or

Atlanta I live near Atlanta Atlanta

100% Atlanta that's the one

you're gonna be guaranteed the best racing at

definitely go to Atlanta if you've never

been to Bristol go ahead and go this weekend

yeah I agree I agree with exactly

what Danny said

Steven saying Bristol can

be fixed by going to 33 degree

banking with no progressive banking

bullshit leave it concrete

move springs date to early

to mid-May and move the fall

date back to August summer heat

Bristol and higher temps

work better I'm just saying this as

the as the resident Tennessee

football fan you got to move it away from

Tennessee football season you can't conflict the people

of East Tennessee with which event to go through

when you what sucks is the year before

they moved it we were there in 2019

and it was like the biggest crowd

they'd had since they used to do those

most high Bristol race I had seen

since yeah probably like

2009-2010 when I first started

going it was electric

at that race and

then they moved it it was like

and that was and I get you know COVID didn't help

with that move and it's had its moments

in the sun you know what I was

looking iffy for those weekends years prior

2019 got a lucky break it was like the perfect

weekend of NASCAR racing

I know it's good for the chase

and all and they could probably move another track

in there that could fit it but it's like

can you imagine a run

to the three race run to the chase

and it's like Watkins Glen

Bristol

Daytona

three different races

that you can get to where different guys can

gain points wild

cards if you will crazy moments

all that stuff because I feel like

the big thing with the playoff schedule

is that you had the elimination races

and they really figured out the right races

to have with it but now that it's the chase

you can move it around and do different

things with it

I'm all for moving it back to August

I think you'd probably get more people there

because again they wouldn't have the local

head-to-head with Tennessee football

which is going to happen no matter what

and you'd probably

have more people watching on TV because there is less

going on a Saturday night

in August TV wise and sports wise

than late September

so yeah I'm all for it man

what if we did single file

restarts at Dega

they probably

just find different ways to go three wide

and fuel save

that's probably what they would do

the Martinsville race two weeks ago

had an average of 4.9

green flag passes a lap which is down

from 7.2

from last year's spring race

damn I'm surprised it was even that high

that sounds like a lot

Steven says

I've said for years and we'll continue to say

if we have to

if we have to have stages let's just do

two stages at all tracks race to halfway

I mean I'd be

maybe

Napa saying Sunday on Fox

instead of NASCAR paid programming

it does feel like that sometimes

but the thing is

I'm not blaming Fox

NASCAR signed the deal

they signed up for it

granted the one that negotiated the deal is gone now

but the whole other conversation

Gavin says

I would love to see the trucks exclusively on prime

I'd love to see them anywhere about Fox

but I do like

them having an exclusive broadcast partner

I would rather it be someone besides

Fox too

on PBS

I'll take it

except that the broadcast gets cut off

every time the government shuts down

Kevin

says real quick

is there going to be a mid-season bracket

challenge again this season yes there will be

same as last year although

the way the seeding works is a little different

a little more simple if I recall

Yup

Vamboni sports

the show guys

driving the Zamboni

to

tonight

oh okay I did

then

getting paid to go on a three day fishing trip

at one of the best rivers in the world

good week awesome man

yeah

you're getting paid to go on a fishing trip

I'm paying somebody to take me fishing

on like fork on Friday

Stephen says forward hurting forward

not developing drivers like

Chevy and Toyota have

they just sign those that leave

O'Reilly's team

slash younger drivers are needed

I gotta say but the whole forward thing

it is kind of exposing the

the O'Reilly series really has no

functional

importance for the manufacturers

outside of development like

cup it's the main show

the main cars they want to put out there

trucks they sell more trucks really

they don't have anything else these days

yeah I hate saying it

because I disagree with it completely

but it's making

the argument to make

the O'Reilly series an SUV series

or an electric series more viable

and I hate it

well it's not going to be an electric series

but I'm with you like the body style could

dramatically I don't think

I think that ship has sailed for at least

another decade plus but

I mean changing the body style

it doesn't really because you're I mean

the O'Reilly series doesn't really have

it doesn't really have its own distinct identity

at this point I think among hard

core fans it's like oh this is sort of old

school you know there's no spec

chassis there's no spec motors it still feels

like the cars are hanging out loose you know

like it's old school I guess but that

but only the hard core fans really see

that so I don't really know what it is

it is a development series I guess

at its core still that's all it really is

it's made me feel like

you know it's set to me it's set in stone

that

the O'Reilly series as we love it

right now I think it's days are numbered

and I don't like that but it's just

it just feels

like it's that way I mean Ford basically

has washed their hands of the series for

this year and we don't know like maybe

Penske will come back into it next

year but there's been no news on that

for a while I think the money

doesn't work as well in O'Reilly

as it does in the other two

series I'd love it if we could say like

a like an RFK

Traderhand at a couple a couple

teams or something yeah

it's just it's again

it's old school and I just think everything else

about the sport is new school so like the team

a lot of the teams aren't really optimized for what

the O'Reilly series and I mean there's a reason

we've talked about a lot of the young guys in top

seats are all either pay drivers

or they've got tight sponsorship connections

you know it's it's hard to just

there's a reason Cory Hyme isn't in O'Reilly

and you know it's it's tough it's tough deal

Napa saying one year ago

Fox showed a hot air balloon instead

of racing to be fair last year's

race you might as well watch it

and then Spencer

let's get ready to rumble

I can't do it the way my voice was

Jared just

Jared just got his voice back and the chat's trying to

make him burn it up already

Alex I've slept on this for

months with everyone whining about

Fox. Stop watching Fox then

and tune into MRN and PRN instead

show Fox a broadcast

is unacceptable by consuming another

medium complaining only goes so far

I mean I've had a couple

times where I went for a walk and

listened to MRN, PRN

called a race they're okay

they can have

their moments where I'm

more zoning out to what they're really

talking about and

I don't like having to listen to Dave

anymore I have to but

they do

they do still do the thing

where like in the middle of stage 2

they will have the race sponsor

come into the booth and they will do a 15

minute interview with the sponsor

during the race that is still very

common with MRN so it's like yeah

they have their highlights but like

is not a viable way to truly

listen to the entire race and get the

full experience. You gotta go online

right to the international feed if you can

that's about the best way you

can you don't get commercials

that way.

Indy Carson,

Veen Ask Carson put a few here says

hey NWP how was your Easter

holiday? I think pretty good for me

pretty good.

No cup race last week but

hey the wives of NWP hosts

were awesome and entertaining for the fans

last week can't wait till

they do it again someday.

For sure.

And then says

Rockingham,

congrats on the top five trucks great finish

but same old Boringheim wins again

O'Reilly congrats Minnesota

on Swalloch becoming the first driver

to win a NASCAR race from your state

that is true.

Good deal.

Fellow Minnesota Viking fan.

Alex, hey Danny what WrestleMania

match are you looking forward to the most

as a Randy Orton fan? I'm looking

forward to CM Punk

vs. Roman the most

coffee or McAfee?

Pat McAfee.

Pat McAfee same

to imply he was

done with the WWE he wasn't going to be doing

anything else with him anymore so

so be it that's fine understand

he just randomly comes back

and he's put in as like

an associate

of Randy Orton who doesn't

need a Pat McAfee to be

of him as like that's going to be

his big advantage over CM

Punk like no these two have

so much history in their time

in the WWE they were literally the tag team back

long ago this was

not needed and anyone else

would have made more sense in Pat McAfee

this this one definitely was a head scratcher

as far as what

match I'm most looking forward to it's

not for championship reading but Brock

Lesnar and Oba Femi

it's going to be just

too massive behemoths of

men going at it that one will be fun

if it lasts more than

five minutes we'll say what actually happens

the way they booked these things

Jeffrey

says no Bristol 40 degrees

and 300 horsepower 10 inch spoilers

moving on

I'll give you I'll give you a

two word answer

hell no

that's not very hell yeah of you Danny

well it

NASCAR is going to be knocking on your door

it was cool to see it but it can move on

see Eric here says do we miss

Bristol dirt do we need dirt racing

I said yes and yes I actually

like Bristol dirt

oh that's what I was replying to

yeah so that's I think Danny was already like

no no more Bristol dirt and I'm with you I don't think

Bristol dirt needs to happen but I wish

they could mend their fences with Tony

to Stuart Stallone Eldora

I love to see Eldora

something or other

also I think like on my end it's different

than your end because I didn't see this one

pop up in the queue so

I don't know if it missed a few or not

oh interesting this is what I had next

I only have three left

that's what I had next to

indy karson any news iceberg

on nurses cubs game results

not till Friday night

I was late tonight

if you already talked about it due to taking care

of elementary school students

in school and church all day

I said I love my jobs

yeah it should be

I would assume we'll probably know

by the time I'm live Friday night

I'm not sure though I'll give you guys the update on here

hopefully back on wood it's all good

Steven says TMS in May

will be the hype of my

bachelor party

sweet have fun yeah

I'll be there hopefully it's a good

hopefully at least it's an interesting race

it's not always a good race but it's been

interesting the last couple years

then Jensen says I agree

with NASCAR cletus needs more racing

experience before approval for Dega

my buddies who are new NASCAR

fans wondering if I

if having Amazon allows queez

his journey up the NASCAR ranks

is going to be part of full speed

aloha that would be cool

I feel like cletus already though

like the way he's covering all that

via YouTube his YouTube show already and it's

well it's not as polished as what

Amazon or NASCAR would put together it's still

like I feel like that's what makes it real

and authentic and relatable

I mean to be cool but I also don't think it's

necessary because I think he's already such an open

book on his own YouTube channel yeah I don't

know that's an interesting thought

and then last one from Steven says

with Daytona testing back bring the all-star

race home to Charlotte that'd be down

especially the way the racing is

probably makes the most sense at this

point gotta give dover

give dover a points race back come

on now yes come on that's what they need that

100%

agree all right that should

do it for tonight so next week we'll

be live on the 15th on

Eric's channel I pointed the right way

for once

high five

don't don't leave me

hey there we go

all right we'll be live on Eric's channel

8 p.m. eastern time grant from auto

racing analytics will join us

we'll talk all things Bristol and then we're

going to Kansas

that should be a good race right like

that should be guaranteed to be a good race

right come on I hope so at least decent

decent

enough

income tax day for NWP

oh yeah

that's April 15th

taxation is theft

we need to throw more tea in the harbor dammit

we'll never steal your time on

NWP so yeah

can't wait to see you guys

next week and until then

drivers

start your engine

I don't care if I wreck the whole f***ing

over

that was an absolute bullsh**

it's not clear

or I'll tell you

I'm not even racing a f***ing f***

what the f*** are you out here

people are saying you're just racing

like a f***ing idiot

I don't care

what the f*** is he doing

did you ever think you would

see that

all the f***ing that just happened

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