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One of my favorite bits on this show

is how our intro features

just an exorbitant amount of swearing

and bleeps and cursing,

and yet we do our best to be mild-mannered

between the three of us.

I know the chat holds us accountable

when we get a little too off our rocker.

It's just the juxtaposition

from our intro to the three of us

chatting NASCAR every week

is kind of jarring, but it's a lot of fun.

Rock and roll, ready to go.

We've got a lot to get to tonight.

Welcome to NASCAR Weekly Podcast Wednesday night.

My name is Eric E. Stepp.

I am your host, your moderator,

your emcee for the evening.

I am flanked to my left

stage right by Daniel Baldwin.

Danny B. Talks.

I know that T is not for Texas.

It's got to be for Tennessee,

but still on theme this week, Danny.

How are you doing?

I'm good, yeah.

I'm thinking of weirdly, Texas and Tennessee.

They just announced this week that

the Texas-Tennessee game this year,

they will be encouraging the crowd to do

the Checker-Neyland effect.

They will have the orange and white sections

checker boarding the entire stadium.

And Eric,

I know you're a little more neutral

for Texas fans

because, you know, you do have

an Oklahoma sooner wife,

but, man, some of those fans

can get a little

just easily offended.

All I said today on a post on Twitter

about football was just simply,

I don't think they'll win their first time inside

Nalen Stadium because it's a very rowdy stadium.

I don't think they'll win.

And then just someone

just went ballistic

because I just said that.

Hey, well, I mean,

it's the with the two orange

T teams going head to head

later this fall. It's definitely going to be

a high-priced ticket

to get into. I don't know if I'll be actually

going again, but I would like to.

I am sure those longhorns, they do

travel. Jarrett is to my

right stage left, the iceberg.

How are you doing this week, my friend?

I'm doing pretty good.

Just, you know, doing better than

I guess Kyle Busch,

John Arneam and Jack.

Brian Breeze, definitely.

Christopher Bell

doing a bit better than them.

Yeah, well, they are

all professional racecar drivers.

That is them at Texas, them

at Texas. Yes. Yes. You are

in a better emotional state right now

than they probably are after

suboptimal runs this past

week. And we're going to get into all that and

more tonight. We have so much to get to. We're going to talk

Texas. We've got a lot of news this week

from penalties to Blaney getting

a contract extension.

Walkins Glen coming up could be

a wet and slippery spring race

at the Glen. We'll talk about all of that

and so much more. Welcome in folks.

We've got the chat and one screen

for me. We got the chat sometimes popping up

on screen right here. Spencer Purcell

with our first comment here

on the screen on tonight.

We'll get to super chats at the top of the hour.

Our first super chat stage break, but

Spencer kicking us off there

with our first topic of the night. Chase

Elliott gets his second

win of the season. His second

win at Texas Motor Speedway in the last

three years and really

the second half of this race. It was a pretty

dominant showing. We know

Texas is all about track position.

Once Chase got ahead of the tire strategy

got that clean air. Danny gave

him some shots, but he never had

enough to deliver the final blow. Chase

Elliott gets the win. Danny, your reaction

to Chase having two wins.

He's the only guy besides Reddick with multiple

wins this season. That's got to stand for something.

Still bizarre. Some of

his fans want to

remove Alan Gusson as

his crew chief and I just say

by all means have added to 48

would gladly take him right now.

But a shout out to him. He gets

a third place finish though for two weeks

in a row. Much needed for

why his season's gone.

For Chase Elliott,

I originally had him going into

this season as my number one

driver when they got out

of the regular season.

I think he's starting to prove

why I could have been right to think that.

Obviously Tyler Reddick still got

the very

heavy fronted

part of the season so far, but

Chase Elliott

is definitely still coming up to some tracks that

he's gotten wins at.

We're going to the track. He got his very first cup

series win at Watkins Glen. I don't know if he's

necessarily going to do that again with

SVG on the scene these days,

but definitely still going

to some tracks that have been good to him in the past.

We'll see

some more coming up. He's won at Nashville Super

Spadeway. This is

another kind of like a mile and a half

track he just won on.

We could see Chase Elliott win

in a few other tracks coming up from the schedule here.

If I'm a Chase Elliott fan, I've got to be

feeling good about where the season

is progressing right now and the fact that we've seen

him now win twice

and

no Kyle Larson win yet is

truly crazy. No William Byron win.

He's the only Hendrick driver to go to Victor Lane

this season

as many races as we are into the year and he's

setting the standard right now.

It's kind of refreshing to see him back

to being the poster child again this season

at Hendrick because it felt

like when Larson come to the team

that role kind of went away to

him and Chase Elliott reminding

people, hey, I'm the 2020 champion

and I'm still here.

Yeah, the last few years

Chase has continued to be extremely

consistent. He's got the best average finish

of anyone in the Cup Series in the next gen

car era, but

yeah, he went to three straight championship

boards from 2020 to 2022.

He won that championship in 2020

then Larson's title in 21

kind of overshadowed him for a couple years

there, but the last few seasons

Chase has not really been

one of the top title threats. In fact, he

missed the playoffs, missed the chase all together

in 2023 for a variety of

reasons. So to see him

back winning races, I mean, you look at the

basic stats, he's

I think he's the top guide Hendrick this year that

undisputed, like he is leading the pack

there and that's quite the statement

early this season. Jared, what do you think

of Chase Elliott's strong start?

I mean, looking at his stat line

it's as good as anybody.

I mean, five top fives is second

in the series, tied with Gibbs and

Denny. He's

as good as anyone but Tyler Reddick right now.

Top fives, he's tied with Gibbs and

Denny. He's tied with the two of them

and Ryan Blaney for top 10s.

He's doing everything

he has to do and

I think when we had the chase

announced in January

I think a lot of us brought up the point

that this suits somebody like

Chase Elliott, who's been very consistent

who is able to

maybe the ceiling might not be as high

in recent years, but the floor

is not really as low as a lot of people.

The sky is not falling, like chicken

little can sit down for this one

and

it seems like it's been building

two for a while, like

2024 after

the 2023 year, like, you know, he's still good

he still chase Elliott, but it's not, you know

where he was in 2022. Last

year there were probably

two or three races. I just, I immediately

think a Dover that he should have won or

that he was in position to win and didn't

win and now they're capitalizing

on that. What is surprising

me is how quick

in the season, even with Chevy

disadvantage compared to recent years

he's winning because

to me he kind of follows

the season path of

a Tony Stewart where

he'll start decent and then

start winning the later the season goes

it seems like he gets better as the year goes on

if that's the case again, man, I mean

I think everyone was right and thinking he's a championship contender.

I think he is a championship

contender this year.

I find this interesting. We'll get into

super chats later with Ryan

PSU fans that he saw in Facebook at

2018 is the last time that chase Elliott

won the first two wins

for Hendrick and that was much later in the season

that was a much different time for

Hendrick Motorsports. We have a very young

driver lineup and a

very much progressing Jimmy Johnson.

Yeah, and that was the first

year of the Camaro in the cup series.

This is the first year of this slightly modified

Camaro.

To your point though, Jerry Chase Elliott

winning so quickly off the bat and

he's had other races, he nearly won.

What I like about Chase Elliott is

obviously he's stacking points, stacking wins early

in the season. He looks like he could be

a top five seed come chase time

but once we get to the chase, there's a lot

of intermediate tracks in those final

10, especially with the Roval now going

back to the Charlotte Oval and

Chase Elliott at the mile and a half this year

wins Texas, was chasing

down Denny and finished second at Las Vegas

and I think he was 8th at Kansas

a slightly off day for Hendrick all around

and then there's Martinsville late in the year which he also won at

and he's probably his best short track

so I really like how those final

8 or 10 races line up for Chase

so he's a top five seed, he's a championship

threat, no doubt.

Honestly, the only ones I worry about for Chase

and Hendrick at large for Gateway

and Talladega.

So the only two I'm like actually kind of

worried about when it comes to him

scoring points doing well, it shapes

up great for him

and if this team

follows this way, I mean we were talking

about about two months ago like

you know maybe we should pump the brakes

and whole like Fire Allen talk, he did

make, I mean he did make some

not so good calls at points but

on the other end

isn't he the winningest crew chief

in NASCAR right now? I think like

of acting crew chiefs in the Cup

series I think so. I mean it's

longevity, he's

lasted this long, he's a damn good crew

chief and

that team I think is starting to click

more and more each week.

Yeah, no this is

the earliest we've seen the 9

peak and maybe this isn't

the peak, maybe the peak is going to be

a new all-time high for Chase and that 9

team later this season.

Taking a look at a few other notable finishers

Denny Hamlin finished second

a close second, I

felt like he was always like one step behind

Chase, you know when they were pinned

a little deeper in the field on tires it felt

like Chase could get through traffic a little

quicker than Denny, you know final

restart for to go, they're side by side

heading into turn one, even Denny got the

push initially from Chris Butcher to have

a nose out front but was still

no match for Elliott, Elliott still had the preferred

position but another great run for Denny

Hamlin, I know he's frustrated, he wants to rack up

when he's come so close to winning a few races

this year but he is still

solidly second in

points. Tyler Redick

he put tires on late, drove back up to

fourth but he had a top 5 car, his average

finish continues to somehow improve, it's like

he's averaging a top 5

11 races into this season

Denny I want to throw this to you, Alex

Bowman back to back

podium finishes, third at Talladega

third at Texas, you know

Talladega is Talladega but Texas

he was in the mix most of the day, he gave his

teammate the winning push on that final

restart and Alex looks good

what do you think? This has

not been a great track

for Alex Bowman historically so it was

very encouraging

to see a

consecutive third place finish here

and they qualified well too to start at

9 so it just kind of goes to show

what starting where can do for you throughout

the whole weekend so very

happy for the 40

18, they need this actually

we'll get into the standings a little bit but hey

they passed

not just one but two cars

in the standings, they are now ahead

of Cody Ware

and

Cole Custer now so

some people were kind of pointing it out to be on twitter

and I think they're being a little far

fish but they you know people are kind

of starting to say hey if he gets

enough finishes like this and if they can

make the stage points work you know

a run up to 16

doesn't have the equation but I'm not

banking on it, I am just happy

you know for

a good finish here

I posted the meme

I said Bowman consecutive

third place finishes and it was that meme

I want you to put the word back out there way back

up

even if he doesn't make a run to the chase

because I just looked up he has 127

points out

the difference from first to third

is like about 127 points

so yeah I mean

he gets red hot

at this point all I'm really hoping for

is just to see more finishes like this maybe a win

a feel good win would be

amazing and the one

I really wanted the win just because

I don't know how many more years we'll have it

at this track and it's such

a good track for him I want to see him win

the all star race at Dover this year

that's the one I want to see him win that would just

feel really good to see Alex Bowman

win an all star race

that would be cool

and I agree with you I think right now the goal

is try to win some races just build some momentum

and get a deal done for

2027 and maybe beyond

yeah at this point

race like you got

nothing to lose

at this point you can tell yourself I've lost

a ride unless I can prove that I should stay

in it so race like

you know race like you want to keep the car

essentially

few other quick notables

top 5

for Chris Buscher at his home track

great to see I believe he is now 5th

in points if I'm not mistaken

Daniel Suarez

6th that's 4 straight Texas top 10

for Daniel Suarez just keeps getting it done

Carson Hosevar won the poll

came home 7th nice recoveries

by William Byron

Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney Byron

Spund during the race finished 8th Bubba crashed

in practice drove a backup car to 9th

and Ryan Blaney 10th after qualifying

31st

I want to bring up the Byron side of it

he did this at Kansas too

and you might like the comp I gave

to Byron

on Sunday when I was talking after the race

and it's obviously not the same amount

because he's lower in points and all of that

different systems still but

it's very reminiscent

of like a Matt Kenseth in 2003

when you would watch some of those races

he would run like mid-pack

90% of the day

and then all of a sudden they're like

how the hell is Matt Kenseth up the 7th

he's been like 20th all day

that's William Byron like he was not running

really all that great

the last two races on mile and a half

but then he just shows up at the end

and it's just like where the hell did he come from

he just gained another you know chunk

of 5 to 10 points

and you know I think

that when that 2014 gets it

because they're going to get it

because Hendrick is just too good to hold down

like that I don't know

if they'll get high enough in the points to maybe

compete seed wise

but if they do they'd be a

sneaky team to watch

as the season goes on

yeah that's definitely a team that you feel like

we talk about Chase Elliott maybe they're at the peak already

obviously William Byron

has not peaked we know what that team is

capable of so someone to watch

as the summer month roll on

I want to give this guy a shout out

the finish was ugly

he backed it into the fence late

but Corey Haim in just his

third start cup start of the season

only like his seventh cup start

ever led

69 laps in that number

67 Toyota

yes that is both of the funny numbers

right there in one sentence

round of applause please clap

but Corey Haim yeah I mean I know it was some off strategy

and some different things but I mean he looked

you know until he

I don't know until he wiped out

he looked like he belonged so

yeah I looked

it up before Sunday's race

and I don't hate I hate to bag on this guy because he ran

top 10 all day Riley Herps had like his best

cup race ever I want to give Riley his credit

but just to compare the two for a moment

because that's what everyone's doing Riley

Herps for his career I think has two laps

led at non super speed ways

Corey Haim 69

at Texas nice didn't finish

well though so I'll give Riley the point he

finished 11th I believe Haim was like

30th so kudos to

Riley Herps 2311 fast once again

let's get into some struggles here I'll

toss this to you first Jared I thought Christopher

Bell might have had the best car

on Sunday but

trying to dart his way past a sliding

Todd Gillen got clipped

and wound up in the garage just another

disappointing result for C bell

how many more of these can he afford

not many man

I mean I mean he gained

a spot in the points yesterday but still

like he's way lower than they probably should

be at this point

and like

you can see the speed is there

like his four top tens on the air

do not tell the story at all

these led over

300 laps this year I think the only

ones he's behind are Kyle Larson

and Denny Hamlin I think you're right

he's been right up there with everybody

just the finishes

and what killed him

is he couldn't get any stage points either because he got

taken out so early in the race if this was

in the third stage

the damage would not seem

as bad but

you had a last place finish we knew

the race was going to have some attrition to it as well

so it's like if you just survived a little bit

you could also get some points there

I think they're going to get

it turned around but I mean the clock is

ticking at this point I mean I think

that there needs to be a sense of urgency

to start moving up

him and his teammate Chase Briscoe both

yeah because Chase Briscoe had

contact on pit road he also seemed to have a top

five car yeah those are two JGR

Toyotas that have had top five speed

most weeks but have very few top

fives to show for it and Belle specifically

if you look at the last four races I'm going to

try to do this off memory now

at Bristol he sped on pit road

and then crashed in traffic

that was on him that was driver mistake

if I recall

Kansas

remind me what happened at Kansas

oh I shouldn't have attempted this off

memory I had a

Talladega he was running

top ten crashed on the last lap

Kansas oh Kansas he was battling for the

win like in overtime and got squeezed

into the fence yeah and then

he was the one that spun

I picked him because I was like everyone

we picked what 1234

and then there was Belle

it was contact from Tyler Reddick

according to Google that's what happened

yeah it was like Hamlin and Reddick kind of got together

got up and about so he was battling for the win on the final

like two laps and got spun

and then so that one you can't really blame him

on now and you can't blame him for Talladega and you can't

I mean I guess you can kind of blame him for Texas

I mean he could have checked up sooner

then he was able to miss the wreck without any issue

Belle I guess he saw

a hole and thought he could shoot the gap

and just misjudged it slightly but it is

mostly bad luck at the end of the day he's just not

been able to catch a break these last few weeks

take the super speedways out let's just say

Bristol he got just 15 more points on the day

let's say at Kansas he finished up top 5

gets about roughly 20 more

and at Texas he probably could have been in the 40s

that's 75

points just

like scratch rough hand that I'm thinking

and that would have him fifth in points

as opposed to 12th as he is

yeah these bad finishes

add up

and if you feel the weight of it

you feel the weight of it this year more

he was gifted a spot

this yesterday because of the

priest penalty but otherwise he would be 13th

alright this is a hot take before the season

but I think we can kind of add this

into the struggle bus segment

let's move to this guy yeah another

pit road incident Legano got into

Custer who just stopped in the middle of the

left lane Legano I guess didn't see him in time

but Joey with the DNF

he's down to 17th in points

currently 7 points out of the top 16

yeah gentlemen do we

do we think Joey Legano

three time cup champion even

year Legano is Joey

Legano in serious danger of missing

the chase

he's in danger but you know there is some

tracks still coming up that I feel like they could

you know turn it around and stuff

but the only way

he's going to be contending for his

even year championship is if

he barely makes a chase he wins like

every race I don't see that

I mean

you gotta look at the ones he's around

the only person ahead of him

right now in the points that I could see

performing worse on speed at some

point would be Suarez and he's

performed way better this year and overachieved

I'm still I feel bad

saying this for our Suarez fans

out there but I still feel like

Suarez right now is overachieving

and I want to see like

I gotta see longer into the season but

I mean the ones around him around Legano

behind him I mean

Ross is right creeping on him

yeah but Ross

that team feels lost

Legano is also about the same tier

as his teammate Cedric this year too

I mean those two could be interchangeable

I feel like Cedric's better this year

honestly like since the two super

speedway races he got taken out in like

Cedric's been consistently ahead

of the 22 most of the time

his peaks aren't as high

the tracks we have left still

I could see them being interchangeable

like it's going to be close between

Cedric and Legano if either one

of them guys just you know steps it up with

Summer basically that two team

they do they worry me I mean three

DNFs already I mean

that maybe can go back to the mean a

little bit compared to others but

it's not like he's setting the world on

fire because one of those DNFs I don't

think is counting when he ran like 35th

at Darlington

I just

I had higher

thoughts for them but I mean coming into this

race he was around the same spot in points he's been the last

four years I think I think it was Dale Jr

actually that tweeted out he was like 13th

9th like 13th

and 9th the last four years and the

point standings this far in and then

he was like 15th coming into this race but

I

he should be better than this

for what it's worth as far as we are in the

season only eight drivers

have led over a hundred laps this season

and Logano is one of them

so because of that

I know what he's capable of I'm not

going to hit the panic button on Logano to make

the chase because I know he can

I know he can still be better

and that's what I was going to say is compared to those

other guys on the bubble like even an Austin

syndic who I agree has been more consistent

than Joey this year

Joey still has more peaks

like like Danny said like Joey will still

have races here and there where he goes out and leads

40 laps and runs top five like you don't

really see Austin syndic do that you don't

really see Ross Chastain do that these days

you don't really see Daniel Suarez do that

so because Joey still has those peaks

I'm convinced he'll probably still make the chase

but I just asked the chat

he's 17th in points right now just below

the cut line 15 races

to go long way to go

67% of our chat thinks Joey Logano

will not make the chase

this year that's bold

I think he's got to win

and not like a

you know oh we stayed on on fuel mileage

after running 24th all day

not a Nashville super

fuel time win

yeah I mean those would be nice points

wise but I think he needs

he needs a full race

he needs a full race yeah I mean we'll take wins

but he needs to put a full race together where he gets

like 10 to 15 stage

points wins the race

and is leading like I want to see

that I think there's tracks that can do that on

it's probably though later in the season

if I had to think probably in Iowa

or Richmond a New Hampshire

like it lines up pretty well going to the face

actually Michigan ran away working out for him

I mean it's a point of pride there

for sure for everybody but especially

them and Pensky

uh no

I think there's a good point that there's some good

or better tracks coming up

later in the season

we've only had two short flat ovals

so far Martinsville and Phoenix

so I mean we still got more coming up

and that's Ben Hensky's special

I'll probably win the San Diego because

he wins all the first time ever dying

so I wouldn't I wouldn't count him out

I wouldn't count him out

I think and we'll look over the cut line

in a bit but I just think anyone around that level

they just can't have the catastrophic

race they can't have the

they can't have what Christopher Bell had this week

basically yeah

oh no

I think we lost him

at issues at Texas

I lagged out for a second I'm sorry

yeah you froze for a second I'm like oh no we lost him

that's what it's like

I know I got

sorry about that what I was saying was

one other driver I want to mention is Kyle Larson

he was my pick to win Texas

so color me shocked when he

qualified outside the top 10

struggled in stage one got damaged on pit road

struggled the rest of the day then backed it into

the fence midway through this race finished outside

the top

Kyle Larson who leads like a hundred laps

every Texas race wins a stage

every Texas race was out to lunch all day Sunday

very surprised disappointed

in their performance

let's get to these two incidents late in the race

well one was let's go

I was going to say let's go in chronological order

but instead let's go I guess in order of significance

because as it turns out

the Kyle Bush John Anonimichek

run in on the final lap

or with two laps to go

has not carried over

into the midweek penalty report

like some expected

or anticipated

but two laps to go

the racing for 12 13th place Kyle Bush

and John Hunter get into each other

going down the back straightaway Bush said

Anonimichek was off the wall a couple feet

looked like he was Bush was also

very aggressive at the exit to the lap

previously he almost cleared himself off the nose

of keselowski so two drivers

squeezing each other made contact

Bush then going into turn three

car seemed to snap to the right

stored Anonimichek into the wall

they finished 20th and 21st

respectively after the race

Anonimichek called Kyle Bush an ass

did his Brad keselowski impression

Kyle Bush then brought out

said SMT data to point out

that hey I did not start this

Anonimichek was not in his lane

he caused the initial contact

yada yada yada there was more discussion

I felt about the door slam

in turn three

NASCAR apparently

looked at the SMT data and found that

Kyle Bush was turning his car to the left

when he shot to the right

and wrecked the 42

so they decided not to penalize Bush

not to act further

either way gentlemen Kyle Bush

had one of his best races in a long

long time and unfortunately

these run-ins on the final laps cost him

potentially a top 10 at least a top 15

finish he comes out of here 20th

take away on the incident

but really Kyle Bush's weekend more

broadly

the incident itself

Anonimichek was off the wall

I mean you can see on Eric Jones

camera

he's probably an extra foot or two off

Kyle self cleared himself

I mean I know that

I know that he was like oh you expect

so and so to be at a certain point in the track

well Brad keselowski was the lap before

and Kyle self cleared himself and saved it

that time

you know I mean

I without

the knowledge of the SMT data because I think

even Kyle's tweet about SMT came out like

10 minutes after or before one or the other

that I was off

love being live on Sunday

I mean the SMT

don't lie at least that's what

we've been told and if he

had it all the way to the

left and he still went up there like

you know it's

it's looked bad I mean it looked bad

but if that's the case

and that's what they're going off of

then so be it

it is worth noting he also that last lap

was incredibly slow around the racetrack

so something probably was broken

the weekend

the weekend overall though I'm just

nothing's gonna change

that's that's what I got out of it

because even when they run well

Kyle is still yelling on the radio

he's still yelling at his crew chief

who was trying to actually calm him down this time

rather than

get into a sparring match with them

the team is trying to calm him down

it's like you know

at that point Kyle's kind of the problem

and he's getting

it feels like he's getting kind of that

that kind of I don't know

punk attitudes the right word or like chip on his shoulder

that he had early in his career

but he's not doing well enough to win

I mean like people were

celebrating and he was running 10th

Kyle Bush is running 10th and people are like

oh my god it's like the best run we've had

and the crew chief was like

we haven't run top 10 in like 3 years

man keep the car together

I

I don't know at this point man

like at this point

if I'm Richard Childress I'm just

Jesse Love, Austin Hill, whichever one

you want to be in the 8th

if Kyle wants to go somewhere before the end of the year

so be it I'll put one of you in

you're sticking with that prediction

that you're bold prediction that he doesn't finish

the year

this is snowballing

and it's been snowballing

it's not a snowball anymore it's a friggin avalanche

well I would say

I would say the sun came out

for a few minutes at Texas Motor Speedway

because Kyle was storm

he qualified 6th

and you're talking about celebrating running 10th

he actually ran 4th for a good chunk

of this race 4th 5th 6th

I mean it looked he looked very competitive

and I know Texas is a track position

race so if you've been running 15th

you probably want to stay in 15th most of the day

I get that but

to put it together on Saturday to have a good start

to the race on Sunday and even with all the

weird tire strategies

maybe barring that final restart

he was going to finish 9th

he was going to come out of there with a legitimate top 10

so I hope that's what they can

latch on to this week

push aside the NEMA check drama

did he wreck him on purpose did he not

I mean I'll say this I listened to a lot of

podcast during the week Kevin Harvick

Clint Boyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr

and Danny Hamlin all thought he wrecked him on purpose

like said it as it was a matter of fact

before the SMT stuff I thought he did

so if the SMT says he didn't

I guess he didn't

but it was sus

put that aside move on

hopefully they can have a solid run at Walkins Glen

and then we go back to some normal tracks

the Charlottes, the Nashvilles, the Poconos

I hope this new crew chief can

they can continue some of that speed

they showed at Texas

I don't think I recall much of a solid run

for Cal Busch at Walkins Glen since like

the period where it was him

Kizlowski and Ambrose

he was at the top 3 most every time we went there

well that is true

but Busch had a good road of course run at Coda

last year right so

maybe a top 10 I just hope they can build

like I'm with you Jarrett

the instant the final two laps

killed a lot of the buzz

killed the vibe it was good vibes

for a few hours there then all of a sudden it was bad vibes

I'm with you and I'm hoping they can hold on

to some of that positive momentum

I have two theories here one

one is just

Texas just gets to him after all this is the place

where he didn't care about

him ending him and

Ron Hornaday's day back in 2010

but two

I just

I don't know if he cares

anymore at this point what happened

because I think in his mind

he doesn't want to give them any reason

to keep him in RCR equipment

whether it's this year like Jarrett's been saying

or just after this year

well he doesn't want to like

he doesn't want to have less options

I think he wants to be

a desirable free agent

I think he certainly would like to go to another more competitive team

but

I don't think he's making himself more attractive

by

possibly door slamming a guy for 20th place

I still just say

I still just say at this point

maybe he just needs to consider going to the truck

series and riding out till Braxton gets there

he should ironically do it

John Underneema check did dip back

down to the trucks for a year

to rebuild his stock

what is it with him

and like

just bad blood with his old

drivers too man

yeah

yeah a little bit

I just, the whole vibe

this year

it's even off compared to years prior

I mean

you going on about his hate list

you know and stuff like that

that would actually be kind of like

oh crap we better watch out

like if he ran we're like Denny Hamlin

and Carson

it's called the Braun James meme where he's like

pretty much

like

the only time they got to worry is when they're lapping him

and I'm not trying to say it to be

just a jerk about it

it's just, it's the truth

I mean yeah they

ran top 5 early

and then they were generally a top 10

team and car during the race

like that's a good step

and he probably, honestly he should

have finished top 10 in this race

but

the driver feels like a liability now

because I do agree

I don't know if it's not that he just

fully doesn't care but he just doesn't

give an F

that's kind of where he's

if he's not adding trophies

if he's not adding a trophy to that massive trophy case

I think he kind of checks out

kind of where he's at in his crazy

if I'm not winning what am I doing

and that's the point too is where can they win

like Talladega, Daytona, Atlanta

Gateway

he's won the Richmond, wins Richmond

I don't know

late in the year but that's Austin Dillon's play ground man

I don't know but

the imitator becomes the intimidator

yeah

yeah well

we'll see I think we should move on

we got a lot more to get to including

the other key incident of the day

that I think at the time a lot of folks were quick

to kind of dismiss

but come Tuesday night

NASCAR said not so fast

like the greatest dang worst thing we've ever seen

in our life

Ryan Priest has been hit with a 25

driver point penalty

and a $50,000 fine

for intentionally wrecking

Ty Gibbs midway through Sunday's

race again a quick breakdown here

early in the race Ty made a

kind of a late three wide move

put Priest and a couple others in awkward spots

everyone had to check up Priest lost a couple positions

he came over the radio

was pissed at Gibbs did a little rant

in that rant he did say

when I get back to that 54 I'm done

with him end of rant

he did say end of rant

that's a very Ryan Priest quote

a little later on

he caught Gibbs again this is after

restart they actually raced each other I went back

and watched he raced Ty Gibbs for a couple laps

had a couple opportunities to punt the 54

didn't take him had an opportunity

to run Ty Gibbs up into the crap in turn

two didn't take it instead

he waited until Ty Gibbs

kind of cut him off entering turn three

tried to shut his clean air off entering

the corner and then Priest says he said

just didn't cut him a break

and drove it in a little deep

maybe made slight contact

I again I said this on my show today

yesterday I'm still not

100% sure he made contact

with Ty Gibbs he may have just packed

whatever air he could under the rear bumper

that 54 either way he got the 54

sideways Gibbs into the wall he

DNF NASCAR because of the

radio communication was able

to I guess confirm that he intentionally

wrecked Ty Gibbs they deemed it to be a pre

meditated act of aggression

so they slapped him with this big

old penalty I'll ask the chat what they think

in a moment but I'll turn to you first Jarrett

your reaction when NASCAR handed

Priest pretty substantial

penalty I feel like I'm on the

half to the internet that expected

like if anyone like

if I okay

I expected there not

to be any penalties

if anything maybe bush but still

especially after the SMT

maybe you know

find out more

but basically like if they deemed

he did it on purpose I was expecting

some sort of penalty because he said it

because he went on serious XM after

the race and said stuff about it

I

think that

if they made contact

and then maybe they looked at the front

bumper and saw like scuffs

and stuff like that I don't know how

they determined it look pretty close

I'm gonna be honest like I kind of

if it

you know if it looks like a duck quacks

like a duck it might be a duck on

whether or not he actually wrecked him

I think it was too steep

a points penalty

I think that 25

is way too much for

something that yes it was definitely

definitely seemed like intentional after

what he said but

if it's very hard to discern whether or not he got

into him Gibbs made a late move

as well in front of him

I could see maybe a 10 point

or even a 15 point penalty I feel like

this isn't like

he right hooked him I mean

they've made pretty square contact

I feel like 25

points is just too

many points I mean that's

that's equivalent of a 12th place finish

that's a lot of points that

that can make a huge difference

for the season so that's kind of where

I'm as I I don't

honestly feel like there should have been that much

penalty at all especially

I found out about the bush stuff too for either

of them but if there had

to be one it's just it's too steep to me

sure Danny

what was your reaction

to that

in regards to the prison Gibbs situation

yes

I did you think he deserved the penalty penalty

to see and I will real quick I will

say I do think NASCAR has in their rule

book that like the minimum penalty for intentional

wrecks is 25 points

or 50,000 yeah maybe that's

something that needs to be just amended to where it's a

little bit wider of a scale because I agree

I think 25 points even if you think he deserved

a penalty 25 point seems like

a lot when when we barely

touched him yeah I know but

I get it there is a there's

a precedent and you kind of have to go

but at the same time

if there is a precedent for this it's like okay

how did God push get away with this but

then freeze it and when it happened

to to

similar you know borderline

situations here and one gets called for it

one doesn't that's where things get more

confusing if they

determine in their eyes yes that was intentional

and yeah that's the president so

you gotta do a president but I think it's just more

just the frustrating part is

one looked more like it

was something one didn't and then it was

actually reversed and what got called and what didn't

I think optically yeah a lot of

fans are frustrated for that reason

for sure as here's what I'll say

is yes I think if they're

I think they're being fairly consistent

in the sense that yes they handed

Denny Hamlin the same penalty

four years ago when he admitted he

fenced Ross Chastain at Phoenix

the problem is I just don't think

that's the right I don't think that's a good precedent

that they set I didn't think it was a good precedent in 2022

and I don't think it's a good precedent

today like I guess I

just don't like

how

how we're kind of

rewarding drivers for playing

dumb like Kyle Bush after

he doored John Arneima check if you listen

to his radio the spotter keeps spotting

you until the race is over but then Kyle

doesn't say a word the crew

chief nobody comes over and says a word

not even like a ah man tough

day today like we'll get him next week hey

how's your right for nothing dead silence

like Ryan priest shouldn't

be punished for going on to serious

XM the next day and I don't think he said anything

incriminating he just said what I think we

want racers to say you mess with me

I'm going to hold firm stand my

ground and whatever happens happens

like I don't want to punish drivers for keeping

it real for keeping it a hundred and for

for being outgoing and

and being entertaining I guess to some

degree that's that's the part I don't like because

like here's the thing we all know

bubble Wallace intentionally wrecked

Carson host of art Martinsville a few weeks

ago we all know he did he obviously

drove in there didn't lift

didn't do make any attempt to stay off

him drove through him no penalty

because he didn't say something on the radio

he didn't say something interview he's just dumb

like if you're gonna the

contact between priests and Gibbs again

if there was any was so slight

they were racing aggressively

for position it's not like he waited on

Gibbs or or wrecked him the first chance

he got no he raced him clean for a couple

laps he was giving him a chance

to not race him aggressively but the moment

Ty Gibbs and priest's opinion crossed

that line he stood firm

I just don't think the precedent

they set in 2022 is the right one I think

if you're gonna right rear hook somebody

if you're gonna wait on someone and then junk him like

Kenseth or like Jeff Gordon did to Boyer

you know if you're gonna wreck someone under caution

or on pit road like when there's people

if it's a clear safety violation

or if or you're not racing for position

when it happens then yes a penalty

often a severe penalty I think

fully justified but

the slightest of contact I don't care

if you said something over the radio if you're battling for

position and make slight contact

I don't think it should be a penalty so

I think the precedent they sent in 2022 was

bad and I'm I'm disappointed

that they're still sticking to it I think in

2026 I think they said it

before then I want to say it was

Bubba I think at Texas in 2018

had a similar issue and he talked in the

media and that's pretty much like that's kind

of why it got called and wasn't

his thing happened his was because he

intentionally spun out to brought a car to bring

a caution out I believe it wasn't he wrecked somebody

but it was that

that he said in the media basically like

yep pretty much did it like

yeah pretty much for

but but my point is like they've had

the precedent set that it's

it's more about the driver

like how the driver

incriminates themselves unless it's something

obvious like chase Elliott

and and

Denny Hamlin or like like Bubba

Wallace and Kyle Larson Hill last year

yeah I mean it has to be blatantly

obvious when asked cars like we got to step

in but they pretty much have

had this for a good 8

to 10 years now where it's

you know hey if you just shut the

hell up we'll let you get off

Scott free on this thing y'all decided

yourselves the moment that it feels like

it's more the moment you force it into our hands where

it's obvious now you intentionally did

it or like at least we can infer that

pretty well that's where

it's at and I think I'm

open to re

evaluating that but

it is the precedent that's been set and

it's one of the few times NASCAR's been

consistent on a precedent

I'm not crazy about it don't do me wrong but

I guess at least they're consistent

I don't know I just

I guess I guess but

at the end of the day they're racing

for position if

there was contact it was as slight

as it gets I don't like

it I don't like it at all I asked the chat

they agree 79% say

no penalty you know if I'm going to meet

in the middle I would side actually a

little closer to your first argument Jarrett that if

there's a way they could modify the rulebook if they

had just hit him with a fine

they just said we're going to find you for

you know we don't want you just like going out there blatantly

driving in over your head and doing they just

given him a fine I'd be okay with that I

think you know I get it because yeah you

shouldn't say incriminating stuff over the radio you

should know better I would understand it but

the 25 points on top of that one

again I have yet to see any

hard evidence that he made contact

with the Gibbs that seems

excessive to me I will die on that hill

personally anyway we can

move on uh Texas

sell out crowd before we get into the ratings

in the end I actually know let's before we talk about

the sell out crowd let's talk about the points report I think we should

go from points report then talk about the crowd talk

about the ratings because the crowd ratings to

two very different stories but they kind of go together

here's the chase uh grid

points I had to use a grid because it's not

really a playoff grid anymore that's old

let's old language but here are the chase

uh standings 11 races

and 15 races to go until the

top 20 the top 16 will be

cut off still a huge points lead

for reddick hamlin a second chase

elliot third blaney fourth busher

fifth host of our up to 6th

anyone who stands out to you guys in this

top 10 I know we kind of do this every week but

I think it's got to be

chris busher and karstosfer yeah I agree

yeah that's the only fifth and sixth

but I guess William Byron still being

like as low as 10th I mean

he's gaining but still

um

chris busher has really done a good job this season

yeah I'm impressed I'm

impressed by the by the 17 the

77 both this year we're going

to a track he could win at this weekend he

he beat SPG here before

the track house is a little weaker now I mean

it could be a closer race

yeah that's gonna be an interesting battle

I think keselowski still holding on to

9th like this whole top 10 is all

you know JGR Hendrik Penske and

alliance cars except for busher

fifth host of our six although I guess

that's kind of a Hendrik alliance at this point

keselowski 9th so I feel like those three are

the ones that really jump out and you're like oh

wow they're doing better than expected

so I mean we talked about like the top three

or four is where you really want to be

and there's a bit of a gap between fourth

fifth on down there's a

pretty damn big gap between third to

fifth on down though now yeah

oh there is now I think like Radicam

on Elliott have separated themselves

I think Blaney belongs

with that group but I like I think those are

your four to look at at this point and

unless we can see somebody

surge up which I think we can from

probably Byron Larson

maybe Gibbs

maybe Bell

but like

those are your three or four guys right now that

I'm saying like chase time comes

around I'm picking one of those four to win it

I would agree that if we still had the

championship four those would be my four

I mean it might be those four

in contention at homestead

yeah you can flip it to the next page

because this is where things again get a little

spicier just looking at the bubble we're just

going to fixate in on the bubble here

Daniel Swires is 14th

cindrick 15th chase brisco

barely hanging on to a chase spot he's

seven points ahead of Joey Logano for the

final spot not too far back to

Chastain SVG that it's

AJ Zane Smith Eric Jones

shout out Eric Jones real quick glossed over this he won

a stage on Sunday baby steps

for Legacy Motor Club yeah first ever stage

win for Eric Jones so congrats to him

but gentlemen here I know we kind of ask

this every week but like who's most

likely to fall out or maybe most likely

to go on a run and get in

I mean we already asked the chat they're not

buying Joey Logano stock this season apparently

the even year thing I guess is one in

one year in one year out the other

but who stands out to you

Danny

I mean you gotta wonder

what SCG can do with these road courses but

honestly I'm

starting laying towards him

not making it honestly

I don't know

I just feel more confident

about Logano over Cindrick in the long

term of this summer I really do

yeah I think

other than that

I wonder about Swares

and I wonder if Ross Chastain eventually

flips the switch this season

Chastain to me

this past week I mean

the speeding penalty is just a terrible

mistake you're running top 10

you have all these points at one of your

best tracks it's one of the times he's

actually run where I expected him to run

on the mile and a half and he failed to

capitalize on it

I think

for Ross he doesn't have to win

but he's got to

get top 10 top 5

stage points in all three stages

at the 600 get a good finish

I've been hammering

for the last couple weeks about SVG though

I mean he's got to win this race

he has to win this race

the points gap

from first to second is too

large for a oh we got a good second

place points day

he needs to leave here either single

digits out or somehow

in the chase depending right now on how

it's all going heading into the

all-star break

if he's

15-20 points out he doesn't have much

of a gain on them something seriously wrong

has happened I think if he only

has half of the road course wins this

year it's not going to be enough

for where the state of him

and Trackhouse's Oval Program really is

now I will admit

I made this before the penalty

so Chris is 38

up now he was 63

up

yeah it's going to

that

I really like

really all of RFK

this season I have felt very confident

I wake in and wake out they're doing

fine I feel like

the old quote that was used with Mark Martin

back in 1990

it could go with priests here like I missed chase

missed it by more than 25

points

like don't

miss it by less than 25 points

I mean that's on you

damn yeah

great point well I started to talk

about this earlier I got a little out of order

in my notes here

but it was great personally as someone who

grew up going to Texas Motor Speedway to see

a sell out crowd

now I obviously know it doesn't seat

140,000 like it did 20 years

ago I understand they've taken out some

rows they've closed off a few of the

lower level seats in the corners but you go to

Texas it is a

huge track like the tracks mile and

half but the grand stands go damn near from

the middle of one and two

all the way across the front stretch to

damn near the middle of three and four it

is they have a gajillion sweets

and boxes it is

it is an incredible

facility frankly

they built it and that it's still standing 30

years later so to see

at least 80,000 people in those grand

stands plus whoever was in the camp grounds

to see a really strong

Texas crowd did my heart

good weather was great all

weekend long I thought the crowds were a little

better than expected I thought the racing

especially Friday and Saturday was

was exciting so that was

awesome unfortunately what was not awesome were the

ratings the TV ratings

yeah fs1 earned

a 1.29 rating and only

2.8 million viewers for the

cup race that is a 6%

ratings decrease and 11% viewership

decrease year over year

however is roughly the same from this

Texas race two years ago is down

I think only 1% but it is technically

I believe the lowest rated

spring Texas race

in the tracks 30 year history

not the kind of headline you want to

see we'll talk about the O'Reilly and truck races in a moment

but O'Reilly continued its strong ratings

gained 1.1 million

viewers most watched spring

O'Reilly

Texas race in 8 years

something about like 8 to 10 years ago

I feel like all the records go back to like

2016-2018 I don't know why that is

truck race had nearly half a million viewers

that was a 22% year over year

increase that might have been the Carson

Hosevar effect after that Talladega win because

he put on a show Kyle Bush as well

Kate and Honeycutt that was a fun

3-way fight with Geo Rajero mixed

in late the poll

the famous iceberg poll

was how you guys voted

10,000 votes

on whether or not the Texas cup

race was a good race

12% of voters said it was a great race

62% agreed it was good

it was good 22% said it was average

4% thought it was a bad race

that's a 74% positivity

rating on the famous iceberg poll

Jared do you have a few comments picked out

yeah and then and too

I mean with this race this was the

second highest rated Texas race

in the polls history out of 11 races

the 2020

Texas summer race is number

1 at 77% that was the 1-2

I believe finished with

Austin Dillon and Tyler Redick

number one

yeah I had some

stinkers in the past few years

yeah I think it's like one of the only tracks

that's had more than like three races

pulled that's

highest races under 80 so

yikes it's

6th of 12 pulled races this year

so it's kind of right in the middle

and 33rd of 62

pulled mile and a half races

it's tied with the 2022 race at Homestead

pure mid

hit the battle of mid

the first comment

and I see him in the shadows from Spencer

positive negative were meme

we're gonna go

positive since Elliott won

he's meming somehow

man Corey Haim

did very well leading a nice

amount of laps

was Haim time until it wasn't

but that DNF does not tell the whole

story of how well he'll do

on Sundays

a positive meme I think

mostly positive yeah

although it wasn't about Chase Elliott it was

weirdly enough about Corey Haim okay

Bailey at the top comment saying

Fox's obsession with

refusing to show anything

but the gap between the cars this season

is incredibly annoying yeah

they'll show you the manufacturer

the speed in the moment I want to see the intervals

I don't care how fast they're going

I know they're going fast they're race cars

yeah no I agree

the only time I'm kind of interested in that

briefly is at super speed ways when I want to see

how hard they're pushing like for fuel and stuff

but otherwise yeah get that off my screen

that's that's relevant

that's relevant to what you're watching

Eric here has

not our Eric says Kyle Bush

runs top 10 all day to throw

it away because

of Rowdy's temper

yeah

allegedly

Danny Alex says Bowman

Bros we are so back

you've never been more back

nobody

knows

is saying one more points

race until we're put out of our misery

talking about Fox

yeah

Richard says

trucks and ariway races were better

and then the gutter comment here

is from Caleb and it was

one letter at a time with spaces

all the way down

M-I-C-K-E-Y

M-O-U-S-E

I had to sing it

good job

that is the poll bought into it I like that

good stuff

thanks everyone for voting on the famous iceberg poll

and gentlemen I think we've made it through our cup series

race reaction breakdown a lot of stuff

happened at Texas I think I saw a comment

or maybe it was a super chat earlier that was like

wouldn't have expected Texas to have

more tempers than like Bristol or Martinsville

but uh but it did

did it but it did had several incidents worth

talking about let's get to the O'Reilly and trucks

series races briefly because I do agree with that

that comment that they were probably the more

entertaining overall races

of the weekend we'll start with O'Reilly

Kyle Larson gets the win

out dual Justin Allgaier

down the stretch was able to take his line away

play some air games yes you can

play air games with the O'Reilly

with the perfect O'Reilly series

Car Dirty Air does still come into play from time to time

but some great racing

between Larson Allgaier

and 18 year old Brent Cruz

at one point they all but lost it

remember that clip I think it was 2012

2011

I think it was

it was Zillich up there

and Allgaier was right with them too

it's because Allgaier was in Zillich's

paint scheme so I'm getting really confused

but you're right you're right uh no it was Zillich

Larson Cruz but it reminded me of that

2012 Texas race where Brad

and Jimmy almost wiped out in the

tri oval but this time it was three cars

side by side by side

almost wiped out in

in the dog leg there but that was exciting

stage one took a while

to get going they couldn't get through turn two without wrecking but

but yeah

your reaction to the O'Reilly series race

anything that jumped out to you?

I think it's a second year minimum

in a row that they had that

same issue where they're like can we just complete a lap

damn it

but I mean I had

heard that and it was kind of talked about

I think in the NASCAR discord a little bit

that the

cup tires had been

something about the compound had made the track

a bit more greasy and that's

also why the O'Reilly cars were

having so much of a struggle because

I think they had practicing qualifying right before

the race so once they kind of got

the track rubbered in with the O'Reilly rubber

it started to kind of

subside and get to a more normal

race but Brent Cruz

man like kids legit

and oh yeah

we'd be

talk points and stuff a bit but

I mean he's right there on the cut line

he's going to get a few

wins probably this year

especially when there's less cup guys in the field

and it's just head to head with O'Reilly

rags he's

he's for real

yeah no he's legit he has

come in and it looks like he's been doing this a couple years

like he doesn't look like an 18 year old

who's just getting his feet

wet in this series for the first time he looks

confident and quick

he's one of those guys you know

I'm sure top two favorites

for this one is going to be SVG

and Zillish this weekend

but doesn't Brent Cruz kind of have a

road course background a little bit like hey

they could be a guy to watch out for this weekend

to spoil their party

it's a great point

it's a great point well

yeah if we talk about the points real quick

I think how many races in are they

they're halfway through their regular season

the O'Reilly series is

you mentioned

Brent Cruz is only

12 points out

he is 14th only 12 points out of

the chase so he's going to get in

at this rate I think that's

very likely

it's still all Justin Allgaier up front

Sheldon Creed, Jesse Love, Corey Day

Corey Day bended on lap one

turned back the clock into early season

Corey Day for a lap there unfortunately

Brandon Jones top five

I think he won't win a championship this year

because he needs to put together

everything no he's got to put together

complete races every week and

he's not going to out do Allgaier

and some of the vets in that department

I agree I agree but

yeah anything in points

I mean I noticed Rajah slipped down

to 15th now in the point standings

he's still only

14 out of the chase

it's basically the battle is 15th

on up in points but Rajah's thing is

we love Jordan Anderson

but those cars aren't

at a JRM level and

Rajah's going to need as many JRM races

as possible to get up there

get those points but

I mentioned

a few weeks ago

about Parker Retzleff

he actually has the same stat line this year

as Eric Jones in top fives and top tens

two top fives, six top tens

for Retzleff and for Brandon Jones

yeah I can't believe

he's beating

technically

he's beating three JGR cars

Brent Curry is my end that pass in

all of them at this point

but right now he's beating

legitimately beating

two JGR cars in the standings right now

I keep saying

if RCR

promotes one of our guys a cup

get this guy in a better car

I think he can legitimately do it

I think so, I think you're right

I just

I'm looking at that cut line too

and all I'm thinking is

Sam Mayer

he's got plenty of time

to make it up but

those three DNFs are hitting really hard

right now and

yeah I mean he's

in top five

Brent Cruz on the way

up there for me it's like

kind of looking at the cut line being 11th

because I think Brent Cruz is going to blow right by

even Parker Retzleff

he's that good so far

in four less races

he is doing what all of the rest of these guys have done

points wise

I

I just I don't know what to make of

Mayer this year I know he did good this week but

I need to see it consistently

I need to see him run

like Sheldon Creed consistently

yeah because we know it's

obviously it's been a change because it's no longer

Stuart Haas racing it's just a Haas team these days

we know there's

nothing happening and cut for them

but in the O'Reilly program

there is still something there

we see this beating from Sheldon Creed

Mayer has had some good runs this year

but we need

just a little bit more out of Mayer

at this stage you know as young

as he still is he is considered a veteran

of this series at this point

yeah I've been surprised

by the disparity between Creed and Sam

Mayer because last year they were pretty

close together but this year Creed's getting the finishes

and at least until Texas

Mayer was not

back to Roger real quick when we move on I just asked

the chat will Roger Karuth make the

chase remember splitting time between

J.R.M. and J.A.R.

58% say yes

so I don't know who's going to fall out then

so while it's going to fall off

Retzloff going to fall off I mean

it's going to be tough but we're rooting for him

we're all friends of Roger, Roger's a friend of the show

I should say so we're pulling for him to

to get it done let's talk trucks real quick

before our first super chat stage break

I thought this was the most entertaining race of the weekend

the way Texas is the way the trucks

are it's almost like

a super speedway in a way it's kind of

like Atlanta where guys draft up get huge

runs on the straightaway and then especially

going into turn one you kind of have to like

make a quick move either to make a pass

or to kind of shade an arrow block

or cover your lane

Carson Hostvar was the master of that Friday night

he was controlling that race

better than anyone when he got out front

Kyle Bush had a great truck but got into the wall

early and had to overcome that he wound up

finishing second which was a really impressive recovery

but I was really enjoying

the battle between Bush, Honeycutt and Hostvar

late in that race

what say y'all

don't forget Gio Rosario

he definitely tried to make that interest in there at the end too

yeah he almost sniped at the end good point

yeah I was definitely entertained

I would say the most

by this just you know

it's the fact that the trucks

are still very difficult arrow wise to drive

you have a lot of inexperienced guys up there

but I mean they held a lot of them did hold their own

with the regular

guys you know of the Cup series

coming down

I'm just

Hostvar man

I think he's gonna make it this thing

and I think he said until

like until something

he's gonna do this celebration

I don't know if it's like a championship or

I wonder if they told him

to do the helmet next time

because I did notice him come out with the helmet on this time

that's true maybe yeah

he did say that

it almost felt like winning this race

caught him off guard like he was like oh shoot

what do I do now how do I top last week I can't top

last week that's I mean it's a truck way

and so he did say

yeah yeah yeah he did say

afterwards that he

in the moment he was like I'm gonna disappoint

so many people because it's so fresh

if I don't like get out of the car

do like a burnout from the windows so so he

he felt peer pressured into somewhat

recreating his talent

accidentally put himself in a

Carl Edwards

backflip Kyle Busch

bow situation

it looks cool I mean

especially at night here with the smoke even with

the helmet on I thought it looked pretty sick

you know

a victory celebration I want to say return

is it

I don't think he did it long

but didn't Kurt Busch used to do a lap

in reverse after he won a race or something

like that

he did that yeah

I want to say someone bring that back

because he did that very

brave he didn't do it forever

yeah I'd be down with it

but yeah I mean

the comeback from Busch was definitely

really

old school Kyle Busch

what the hell is Jake Garcia doing man

Jake Garcia

remind me what was the incident

when he basically decided to do a

quen half and try and turn across the track

oh yeah yeah I don't know

I think he even said

I think he even kind of threw a spot under the bus

and suggested that

I don't want to misquote him because that might

have gotten that wrong but it looked like

yeah he just cut across three lanes

and wadded up a couple more trucks than he needed

to

fourth sport in general is just

sad this season you got Ben Rhodes

and Majeski

and Ben Rhodes

he was

Rhodes looked pretty good this year

top five points

yeah looks good

but Cole Butcher has not done much

for him this year

Jake Garcia same thing

I want to mention real quick

we are seven races into the truck season

only

two races have been won by

full-timers it's like series regular

full-timers Chandler Smith at Daytona

and Lane Riggs at

St. Pete's the others have all been won

by Busch, Josefar Heim

who's no longer full-time

Bell got that win at Bristol

I mean

I still put Heim in the category

of being a truck driver

I guess

I guess that's true

until he is hired to be a full-time

driver next series up

I'm just going to call him a truck driver

for now he's not full-timer though

but the thing

too is the other ones have been won by

Kyle Busch and Carson

Josefar

we kind of knew this was going to happen

when you add the amount of races cup guys are going to be in

you're going to have more cup guys winning

yeah

I'm still cool with sticking with five

personally but

I think it's what eight now I want to say

yeah I like eight

I think it's been okay and I think also

second half of the season a lot of these drivers

are going to front load them because they can't compete

in the chase races

it's maybe a little overbearing right now

but let's be honest

with that truck race have been

I think having Josefar and Busch in that truck race

made it more fun personally

and I wouldn't have said that ten years ago

but here and now

with Texas how it is I will say that

so I don't know

well that's been fun guys that was our Texas

breakdown

always fun to be at my home track

especially now that I actually kind of live close to it

I grew up four hours away it was still the closest track

to me now

I'm like 40 minutes away

no longer we have to

call it Texas with

two S's at the end anymore I feel like

no it's

it's okay now

it's competent it is a competent

race and race track

now more or less

let's get to our first Super Chat stage break

before we break into our second half

of the show we've still got more to get to

some other breaking news and more

first Super Chats all came from Bailey Riker

before the show says Kyle Busch intentionally

spun herps a month ago but we're supposed to

believe his car was broken when he spun Nima check

yeah right

hey I think it's fair to be skeptical but the SMT

is the SMT

goes on to say Busch has our history of wrecking people

intentionally or intentionally

throwing tantrums I don't care that Busch didn't say a word

Busch doesn't get the benefit

of the doubt to me

I agree

most people agreed watching in a real time

but I guess the data disagreed so

it's hard to say now

Jeffrey King sent a few Super Chats

howdy

Elliott win number two could he get

four this year

what do y'all think let's go let's go over under

three and a half wins for Chase Elliott this year

Jarrett what do you think

is it over

yeah I'd take the over too

I can think of

two right now

let me see this get real quick

I'm gonna say possibly Nashville

and

you know what just for the fun of it

he's won number four I'll say Pocono

I'll take the over too because I agree that Hendrick's gonna keep getting a little better

then he says

J.J.R. will get jealous of 2311

and attack them too

uh-oh

NASCORP part 70 I guess

then says Trackhouse will not win Walkins Glen

Ty Gibbs will

I've talked about Bristol

I don't know about that one

a few here from Joshua Boston

says why is it that priest gets fine but Bush isn't

the radio communication

that's simple as that

also says as a five fan it's aggravating

to see the winless streak continue

most likely till the 600 if he doesn't

win it'll be a full 36 races

since he won spring Kansas last year

would Charlotte be 36

or is it 36 if he doesn't win Charlotte this week

this week is 36

yeah

high stakes it'd be cool if he does win the 600

I think that would be a nice like

putting a period on the end of

that Memorial Day madness of the last few years

it would be making a lot

it'd make a lot more sense to finally have

not slammed the Coke 600

weekend and he puts it together and wins it

you'd probably get a perfect crowd pop

out of that too

Joshua says Prime Sports

is superior Fox TNT

and NBC are inferior

yeah I mean I agree

and finally I think Walkins Glen being on the Fox portion

is only for this year it'll be moved back

into the chase next year and beyond

I hope so I hope they can make that work

somehow I don't know how September

and Walkins Glen New York works out but

even August I think later

in the year probably is better I've already seen images from

like campsites this week of like muddy

it's cold it's just it's mother's

day weekend that's makes it tough for some folks

to travel and do it's just

they had a good thing going late summer it's

I hate to see him kind of mess it up

Nick Foley says what's up y'all let's

go 77

thank you Nick

Calypso says ready for my grand return

on Sunday yeah the weather

the forecast right now not looking great

which doesn't mean they won't race

we can run into rain on a road course

we can run in some light rain but it might be insane

Twin Spinners says

RIP Kyle Loftus

yes I'm not super

familiar I know he's from like

he started like the 1320 video

I guess account

channel I know he's

was a kind of part of Cletus's

early

YouTube start content start

definitely a big figure in terms of

filming all kinds of different forms of

motor sports

yeah yeah so definitely that was sad news

I saw I've seen a lot of that

early like you know people

kind of like push you know

filming and and doing some kind

of racing you know different kind of

media over the web

yeah no for sure

next up from Van Boney Sports

it's Zamboni

and NWP night in America

got to see my boy Chase win this weekend

in person it was awesome sadly didn't see

Eric I am bummed

I didn't get to cross paths with the Zamboni

guy

but uh dang maybe next

time I'm glad you enjoyed the race though

it should have been driving a Zamboni at the race track

and then you could have you know definitely found

I wouldn't have missed him there's no chance

I'll do a few more here from Steven

Rosario says he effin did it

on my bachelor party with my brothers there for the

first race I cried like a baby go nine

my signed die cast is on

its way hey I'm glad you had fun

and I'm glad you're guy one that's

that's an epic beard our

man Steven has a pro pop picture too

I know that's good that's good

she's a she's a lucky woman

uh from Crest John says

yeah again uh RIP Kyle

Loftis found their founder and owner

of 1320 video and kick started

Cletus's rise to fame I watch their videos

all the time as a kid

uh and I just saw a comment that Cletus

has already posted I think a tribute video

so

someone in the comment just said

um

that he did so definitely worth checking out

especially if you're part of that community or a big

fan of those guys um someone else

in the comments said that Kyle gave Garrett

the nickname Cletus I don't know

if that's true but if if true that's obviously

huge

that's a huge legacy yeah

um

give me one second

here we are from Fred dog didn't have Texas

is more hot tempered than Bristol

this is the comment I referred to earlier

Ryan says I saw on Facebook

that 2018 is the last time Elliot won the first

two races for Hendrick

Danny pointed that out earlier last couple here

Justin Drake says hang the banner

Golden Boy won a championship six years ago

and then Larson showed up you know the rest of

that story

Chase Elliott's gotten the better of him this year

Blame Hayes says Elliot could enter the chase

with four wins I think the three of us all agree

that's very possible and we'll wrap up here

with Irvin Alvarado putting aside

the Met Gala as myself a local

okay New York City area

it's meh but good for

Carson taking the leap to do it the Met Museum

outside the Gala is a must visit

the Egyptian Egyptian section

is the best section

we're gonna get to Carson and his uh

shocking

celebrity appearance here in just a few

minutes but gentlemen before we get to that

check your phones local

weather reports are telling me that there are

numerous lightning strikes in the area

one just hit the podcast

it's the lightning round

Jarrett what do we got tonight

it's so generally actually been some really

rough storms kind of south of us in Alabama

today with a lot of lightning down there

yeah good luck Talladega

uh we have the NWP channel

by the way that we link

I believe we have even a link down in the description

um and we'll have it connected

after the streams as well

we're 25 subscribers away from hitting

1k on that which I gotta make sure

we upload more on it I've realized

I realized I go to

I go to upload and I go to get the clips

and I realize that

stuff I do after the show

on here and then like stuff

moving around deletes the clips I don't

have anything to do

if they that they automatically have them

like well shit okay I gotta actually redo that

now um but that that is

really cool we gotta figure something out when we

do 1k well we'll get there

though Tony Stewart said

to probably run or it sounds like he'll probably

run another truck race this year

depends on which one I know everyone's circling

IRP I believe the NHRA

is like

full weekend across the country at that point

so I don't know about that one but

maybe next year and maybe Harvick

will do it with him

I think it sounds like Harvick wanted to race

with him this year so which I'm cool with

that doesn't count to me as

cup guys double dipping anymore

um voting for the Hall of Fame

is Tuesday May 19th

I figure we

can give our picks end on May 19th because

I think it's open it ends on May 19th

I think it ends yeah it ends

I figure we can give our picks next week

for that okay remind me

I'll have to write those down

yeah I'll I'll make sure

uh mech Mechanally Hilgerman

is fielding the number 20 truck entry now

with Toyota Development Drivers

Tony Breidinger and Mason Massey

with a rumored return

of Haley Deegan as well but that's not been

confirmed but aren't they a Chevy

thing

I thought they were a Chevy thing

I have no idea I'm not sure if

they if it's a Toyota development deal

at this point I don't know what they're doing

that was what was included with it

Breidinger was in she's made

she just raced a Rackley war truck

she's all over the place though I know

it's it's weird

um there's a possibility

of the San Diego race

maybe having to move depending on

geopolitical stuff uh if this

happens it seems like the two options

for a backup would be the Daytona

road course and the Roval

so maybe Roval fans get it after

all and maybe Daytona road course

it's still far off

it's still on

I will say with news that come out today

and my full-time job is news so I

know about some of this stuff every day

I want to say and this is all

relevant so hate to bring all this crap

crap up into it but I want to say

that Rubio or something like

that said yesterday that

um they believe everything

in terms of all the initial operations

is done in their eyes

and they're trying to wrap up

and and kind of end things

over there so I think it might be

less likely that it happens but

again that stuff's just relevant to all this

don't disrupt my

NASCAR I already got my San Diego tickets

I ain't rescheduling I want to I don't want to have to change

plans the Airbnb is paid for

which by the way those ask in the chat

Daytona road course is like the always the

go-to for ISC if something is

to happen and the Roval is only

talked about simply because if it's

not in enough time for Daytona to get

ready the Roval is a pretty

easy setup for them and they have

it's like across the street

from Hendrick Motorsports down

the road from Roush it's right there you know

wasn't it

January or February one of the two

is when we found out about the Roval

being changed so like they have all the stuff right

ago that they would need if needed

and I'm assuming

with you know possibilities they'll have

it just as an emergency plan but for

now San Diego still on Ryan

Blaney has re-signed with

team Penske

I hope they gave him a lot of money

because he's carried that team the best couple

he's carried board

he needs a good health plan because his

his back has there's got to be some

spine problems with how much he's been carrying

them all to this point how he

carries crew which by the way now

they've changed the crew they're actually really good

it was Ryan Blaney who had this grew up this

week true I think

Blaney's crew since the change in grant

it's been a short amount of time is like top

10 in speed now for

pit speed which is dangerous for the

rest they haven't been the

story the past couple weeks so that's a good

sign that means things are heading in the right direction

and then last big thing

for the lightning round storyline wise

is the JGR Spire lawsuit

setting up to be in

court January 2027

so we get we get

NASCourt coming to ahead at the end

of season two the same month

as preseason Thunder coming back

just let's make sure I hope to

gather not the same week I got one I want

to enjoy both

but

other than that we'll be live

next week on my channel May 13th

if you any sort of time and I think

that to all of our

channels are down in the description so

make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any

upcoming episodes don't miss them live

and I think I hear that I think

the lightning round is is ending

lovely lovely

lovely I saw folks

in the chat saying wrote America

to replace San Diego if needed

America

250 boys

wrote America well

yes headlines we teased this earlier I want to talk

about this for just a moment because I still think it's absurd

I still think it's crazy that they got Carson

host of our to wear a designer

tuxedo

and jet up to New York City

to participate in

the Met Gala or participate as a strong word

to be present for

to mix and mingle

hobnob with the celebrity class

and all try to make Sabrina

carpenter and get the memes flowing

which I did see and I think I saw

super chat about it but I did see some comments

like one of his friends he supposedly

was there with I think maybe

made it sound like they did get to

meet her like maybe it was literally just like

a hey did Carson talk about

this on stream he was trolling

hard about it like they kept asking

and he never would give an answer

he's just he started he was like gather

what else do you guys want me to talk about

there are plenty of celebrities there it was really cool

seeing this and he has this like sly smile

like I'm pretty sure

that heard that that and people started asking

about Shrek 2 because apparently she said that's

her favorite movie and he's

like Shrek 2 it's a good

movie and he's like going on about that

he's so he is so clever man

he's such a little sneaky sneak

he he has

he's been like

he's bane to everyone other

every other driver's Batman

it's like you go on social media

I was born into it

molded by it

you only adopted twitter

and twitch

the last two weeks

and nascar rices have

have been won by the guys that should be

first and second in the most popular

driver award this year

I would agree

no I do think it's cool that nascar

I was trying to figure out I was talking to my wife

I was talking to Amelia about this because she would know

a little more about how the Met Gala works than

I do but I know it's an exclusive thing

you know obviously it's it's very

pompous and flamboyant

and a little pretentious obviously

but still I'm like you know I saw the tweet

or the report that is the first nascar driver

to attend since Jeff Gordon nearly

20 years ago to me that's like

it was like 02 or something like that

yeah maybe it was

sometime in the 2000s

I know everyone was telling me every time I was happy

about a host of our being there it's like

Gordon only was there because he was on his wife's

ticket so it might have been

2010's what blue jimmy's saying

okay 20 yeah so almost 20 years ago

like I get

the criticism

if you will that like why does nascar

care what a bunch of snobs in New York

think why do we have to be in that circle

and it's like we don't have to be but

when nascar was at its peak

those golden years we like to talk about

Jeff Gordon was there

Dale Jr. was doing things like this

Dale Earnhardt would you know was driving a car

down Broadway in Manhattan

you know like that like nascar

you know it's important for people to care what's going on

in nascar this industry is

got another network to talk about nascar

e-entertainment or whatever they are

someone other than us goovers

on YouTube talk about nascar

here's the thing is like

in my lifetime I've been watching this sport

for a little over 20 years now I have only

ever seen this sport shrink

and contract I've only seen the industry

get smaller and jobs go away

and people get paid less money

I'd like to see things change

and the way things change is by going a little

more mainstream than we've been the past few years

and getting a young up and coming

exciting talented driver

like Carson Hosevar at these kinds

of events gets a new audience

engaged gets people talking gets one of our

brightest personalities out in front of cameras

more so I only see

good coming from things like this and I hope it's the

first and more and that's what I was saying I was trying to figure out how did he

like is this something

nascar had to push really hard for

or did someone invite him

yeah like what was the connection I did

see he did a lot of things with e-news

so maybe they invited him on the

you know on the tail of his

Talladega win I was trying

to figure out how this happened like how organic was

this this whole appearance

this this better get him the win on the

driver incentive program because he's

been putting in the work but I

one of the biggest

storylines I've seen

whether it's social commentators

political commentators whoever all these

people that I like watch or follow or I

see all of the talk has

been about how far

from reality all these celebrities

are and I don't be completely fair I

completely agree I can't stand

pretty much 90% of these people

and then you got somebody like Carson

Hosevar like who

you know like I saw like the rock went

viral because he like wore a skirt or

something and then there's Carson Hosevar

the normal kid who's just like

I'm just happy to be here this is really cool

like I just saw this this and this

you know what I would rather

the nascar driver come in

and be the normal guy at the party

and everyone be like oh that's

so sweet his mom is happy he's here

he will he's shouted out his mom

it is at her favorite like celebrity

event like I would much rather

that because that's what nascar that's why

nascar drivers were so personable

and relatable for so long is

like you look at the especially

what you look at like the earn hearts

Dale Earnhardt and Dale Jr. they were normal

dudes who were doing super star

things everyone's like yeah that's

me like

that I always remember that clip of Dale

Jr. where he's like going to this huge

giant meet and greet thing that like

thousands of people there he's like

well you know

Bud Lighter, Budweiser

well if I just want one or two after

a long day of Budweiser I drink 12

party all night Bud Light and everyone goes

freaking nuts and that's the nascar crowd

and then he can turn around and be

on like MTV Music Awards

or like Heaven Dinner in Monaco

with Beyonce and Jay-Z

like that but he's a normal

dude and that that's that's

the appeal of nascar drivers so

I have no problem with nascar drivers

going anywhere and doing anything that's

really fun like that's like Blaney I mean

he used to be on like a

his IMDB is much longer than I thought it was

like when you look back so

yeah I mean the host of our he

he Carson went from

an Ikea earlier this week

signing you know at a place

that every college student goes when they're moving

into a dorm to the Met Gala

and then was going to race a dirt track

the next night that that is how

nascar drivers used to be all

the time and I feel like we've so separated

from that at any random time

yeah yeah we're so separated from

that that so many new fans

can't fathom it and like

we all remember it being that way

we all the three of us remember like kind

of the tail end of that that

and it's fun to see it kind

of come back and yet to your point like host of our is

like I even compared to like

I feel like we've seen this with Cletus fans

like Cletus McFarlane is

every man who's turned this this

racing awesome empire done amazing great

things I think a lot of his fans viewed

nascar is sort of this pretentious big

wing motorsport series but here's their guy

squirrel cletus

they're breaking into nascar and they're still long for the ride

like look at that's our guy

trying to make it big that's how I felt watching

Carson host of our New York City like that's our guy

he's been on this show he's just a kid he's just

he just loves racing and here he is

in the same room as Sabrina Carpenter whether

they met or not I guess we may never know but

and the critique of like oh nascar sent

him or Spire but like I don't care

like we all we all know that

going in like you know if

Jeff Gordon wasn't in on his wife's ticket

like if Jeff Gordon went

he probably spent like 30 to $100,000

to go in we all know that

like that's the part I don't get about this

is it feels like

there's there's plenty of things to critique in

nascar there's plenty of things that need to be

improved like why can't

we just take the W when it is

served to us on a silver platter and is a

cool deal it has

no effect on anything

else before or after that night

that we can visibly see in this moment

I don't think a bunch of wine moms are going to be

tuning in to Watkins Glen this week

on Mother's Day because

Carson host of our was on it's a cool deal

as like one of the many building

blocks to build up a superstar that we're

trying to build up I don't I don't

understand where the issue is here

I agree I agree

my only critique is

because the Met Gala is all about

wild fashion I do wish I know

you said hey he's just a normal guy there I get

that I kind of wish he just worn his

Talladega fire suit you know like so cool

champagne at all he just shows up in the

western chilies where with the cowboy

hat on that would have made a statement I

think to her blended in don't get me wrong

everything outside of Carson host of our looked

like the capital of the Hunger Games for to me I

was just like we're so just we're so far from

reality all I remember about the Met Gala

when I think Met Gala I think back to like 10

years ago when Lady Gaga wore like raw

steak dress

to the Met Gala that's all I remember from

that's all I know that's my

that's what I can relate with the Met Gala

that was the Met Gala

I think so I hope so or else

he's even weirder

was that like real meat like that

oh gosh stunk

I this is at least 10 years ago someone

let us know I think she wore actual raw

meat on her body to

the Met Gala maybe I'm wrong I'm sure it was

a commentary

on something but everything's

a commentary with those people

so Carson should have worn his chilies

fire suit that's all I'm saying it's my only critique

my only critique

you're just handing out triple dippers to

everyone at the Met Gala

here you go

did you see the edits of they put Sabrina

Carpenter in like her own

chilies fire suit to match like

people that was going all over Twitter too

someone said it was 20 years ago

someone said it was the MTV Awards

oh never mind so she was really crazy doing

that not the Met Gala I thought it was the Met Gala

it would have blended in better

in the Met Gala I am so far

removed from celebrity culture like

really I am too if host of our left

in that place got hit by a meteor I would

have found out three days later

I wouldn't know I like what you like

if host of ours there I would have found out

yeah yeah he's the normal guy there

is like you know it's like when you watch

a comedy show and you got the comedic characters

and there's like the one straight dude that's

you know the normal dude

that's host of our in this deal

he's the normal dude with

the three students he's playing the straight

man at the Met Gala but on Sundays

he is the

wild one our weird

looks normal compared to Hollywood

yeah

well uh

let's have some fun gentlemen I've had fun this is a great

show I've really enjoyed it

segment was kind of fun right there anyway

it was it was a great precursor to our

first actual fun segment

our prediction slash

accountability segment

every week we each make two

NASCAR racing or show related predictions

we keep track and hold each other accountable

we try to keep our predictions concise

contained within a few years

so first up

who's on the board hey I went one

for two I said Spire would get

two top tens at Texas hell yes

six and seventh

I also said the Texas race would finish under

in overtime I was close

four laps

I'll take it one for two that's not bad

Jarrett went one for one said that

Texas would outscore Kansas

on the iceberg pole and I guess

it did must have been pretty close

74 to 62

oh not nearly as close as I thought

wow I think that's

all about expectations there

yeah and then Danny nothing came off the

board this week but he's got predictions cooking

in the oven over the next

several weeks so for the season I'm leading

the way 61% correct Jarrett

at 52 Danny at 31

but all time I believe Jarrett still holds

a slim lead at 4%

lead over myself and then Danny

be that since 2024 guys

let's add to the prediction

pile do I go first

I always forget I'm the whole thing so weird

I guess for me to go first yeah

we're doing like whoever's doing best

goes first we're separating us so you're like reversed

exactly it's the opposite

so I don't know if you all have seen you definitely

have seen Walkins Glen this weekend

a slightly different configuration if you will

they've added tire barriers and

tire packs to the outsides of turns

one and turns five

an attempt to try to

encourage track limits I'd say

turn one it's like individual

tire like bundles

my prediction is that NASCAR

will have to repair or replace

one of those tire barriers

this weekend

at least one

we talked about Brent Cruz earlier

I'm going to make one on him

by June so after

Nashville Brent Cruz

will be top seven in O'Reilly point

so you could probably do that

at the moment I just want to make sure I get

this right so at the moment

seventh is Austin

Hill and he is

84 ahead of Brent Cruz

I think Brent Cruz

in the next what four races

I think he can make that up I think he's going to get a win

in there

that's not a layup I'll get

I think he'll get there at some point but that's quick

so

Austin Hill and Carson Quaple are tied

by the way for 72

so I think it's past

I think it's past Rhett's laugh pretty easy

the other two I'm

banking on him getting hot

okay alright

Danny what about you

SVG

will lead the most laps

in all three races this weekend

ooh okay alright

that leads into

my next prediction this is kind of a

spoiler for our actual race

picks a little later on in the show perhaps

kind of it's a teaser maybe

so SVG at a Danny's point

is running all three races trucks O'Reilly

cups so is Connor Zillich

triple duty

I'm looking at this is like a series like a

best of three

I predict Connor Zillich

will win this weekend's

best of three matchup against

SVG as in like he will finish

ahead of SVG more than

SVG will finish ahead of Connor Zillich

I thought you were saying like he's winning twice this weekend

well he might

yes maybe I'd make that

prediction too if I was allowed to make a third one

because I mean I'm considered an SVG

likely if he ain't winning second so

which one do I want

nah that one seems like a layup

Kyle Larson

Kyle Larson's winless streak will go over

40 races

ooh

because I think there's some pretty good tracks for him lined up pretty soon here

I mean we got

you know after this we got 600

we got Nashville which should be pretty good for him

Michigan I would assume is probably

gonna be pretty good for him

so I don't think he wins those I'll go

40

I thought doing 50 but I'm like that feels

like I don't feel like this is a layup

a 50 is like a full court shot

yeah now

your predictions are pretty bold I'll give

you those like that you're taking some gambles I respect

that

something about Brad Koslowski

returning

to a blue and gold beer

card this weekend

yes

we'll just reignite

his understanding of road course

especially Watkins Lynn

Brad Koslowski we'll get a top 10

this weekend driving that yellow car

I love that that's funny

that was a good one

it was full on was it

2012 what was what year was the

Ambrose I forgot

2011 or 2012 I think it was good in both of those years

yeah yeah

I like it those are good great predictions

tune in next week and every other week

we will continue to hold each other accountable

for these bold predictions but now

it's time for you all to get involved chat

more or less time for

random driver of the week

week

Jared gives us clues

chat you can chime in

but Danny and I will be pitted against

each other in a death battle

of obscure NASCAR knowledge

Jared lead us in

yes so in the last five

Danny

has the advantage he has got three

of the last five with David Ruderman

Dave Marcus and Nelson PK Jr

Eric has David Star

and I got y'all on

Buddy Errington

that was a tough one

so Danny

leads I believe 40 to

39 all time

we just keep track all time on this one I'm ahead

of any guests 8 to 7

so at least we'll know I'll keep

that one let's get into it

this random driver hails from Idaho

you to hoe

I don't know any drivers

me to hoe man we all

to hoe

we must be to hoe

this random driver is also

the first driver from Idaho

to start in the Daytona 500

it might be the only driver from Idaho

I want to see this check it check it

check it

check it already got it

something about them boysy boys

he's really

it's a hint

the only city in Idaho

I mean the same point Idaho is a nice town

this random driver

his father

owns multiple resorts

in Idaho

they got resorts up there

I guess mountains

does Yellowstone touch

Idaho or my way off base with my geography

I think it gets close

I don't think it gets to Idaho yet

okay well I'm sure there's some beautiful scenery

up there either way it's cold as

the rackies just like a course

this random driver married

his wife in one of

those Idaho latches

there's too many Idaho hints

before you added anything else he married

his wife like well okay yes he married

his wife

and a boy that we all

married our wives

I've never thought this much about Idaho

in my life

you want to take a trip to Idaho

see now I'm trying to think of like

drivers who had like a resort

sponsorship but none are coming

my mind that would be that

this random driver began

racing at 12 years old

maybe or maybe not in Idaho

I just realized something

it's going to be

it's going to be more of a modern guy

because you didn't see

first of all I don't think you saw random guys

from Idaho start racing

like way way back ten long time ago

I just realized something

remember when Twitter did that poll

of their favorite podcast

Idaho was the state we got most popular

in

I love Idaho

I know you're the best

this is to you Idaho

shout out Idaho

it's a nice state honestly

this random driver made two

starts in three attempts

at the Daytona 500

okay

two starts

three attempts

yes

this random driver made 53

total cup starts

53 you said

5353

alrighty okay

the gears are trying to turn

they're trying

this random driver has

one career top ten

in the NASCAR Cup Series

it was a second place

finish at Talladega

okay alright

who randomly did

go to Dega one time

wait they finished second you said

second at Talladega

oh man okay

and that was in the cup you said

in the cup series yes it's the one

top ten it's this one top ten in cup

this random driver made

210 O'Reilly Series starts though

cool okay

scoring 21

top fives and 79

top tens no wins though

thanks

they were borderline

good in that series

you said no wins

in O'Reilly no wins

okay but they were in the mix

this random driver made

62 total truck starts

though so

made starts

decent amount of starts in each series not

tons in truck or cup

any truck wins

two in fact

one at Dover

one at Phoenix

which is south of Idaho

at the same time zone

they might I mean

depends on what part of the year

oh yeah Arizona's weird

okay Brian Eichler

Brian Eichler

okay

that was a shot in the dark

respect

yeah wow

I don't know why just about the two

truck wins I can't remember how many he had

this random driver

had a rivalry with Nelson P.K. Jr

oh yeah

I put him in that same time period

Danny Danny knows he knew Nelson

P.K. better than I did this this is

this might be an L

for the host this week boys

P.K. actually once

kicked this random driver in the groin

what

do you need a location

would that help uh for that happen

it was it was in Idaho did he go to

his did he go to his like house and knock

on his door and

no he went to the lodge

on his honeymoon

no no

it was Richmond

your time's up in the hot tub it's our turn

I don't know why I just gave Nelson P.K.

a like a yellow

stone accent

but that's okay

oh this what is this show night

this random driver ran these

numbers

this might help me Jesus

oh nine oh one

23

810

1115

1618

2532

3344

75

five

man

the heck is this

this random driver

drove Chevy's

Ford's Dodges and Toyotas

so it kind of gives you the time frame at least

of when okay in there my form

my formative years

of race being a NASCAR fan

probably

was he in

NASCAR Thunder

2004

very important to know

ah

this random driver finished

sixteenth in his lone Snowball Derby

start running a car for Kyle

Bush

is that where the eighteen came

from on this uh

numbers list I wonder

pretty sure

I admit I looked up the numbers like a month ago

so I don't remember where each one came

that's okay that's okay

this random driver stopped

racing in

2017

so like the year before the show

started

how many more clues do you have left

two oh man

geez I really have no clue

this random driver

has

60000 X followers

they're kind of

popular for a truck

and O'Reilly series main

and last one none of us

have tweeted about this random driver

Reed Sorensen

I don't know

Reed Sorensen

haven't we done Reed before

there's no

there's no 41 on here what was I thinking

I'm just throwing numbers out there

Reed ain't from Idaho

I don't know anyone from Idaho

I don't

I know who's not from Idaho

so I guess okay let's see it's not Richard Petty

not Dale Earnhardt

hang on here I'm trying to think

is it Brian Scott

Brian Scott

correct

oh yep

where the hell that come from

you had the first name right and that's why I'm like Brian Eichler

I'm like

I couldn't remember who won

in that 16 truck

back in a day I remember Dover

but I thought it was Eichler for some reason

good memory good poll

but then I started thinking about the year he

quit racing and I thought of 44

I was like oh wait who did the 44

ever meme back then

they got it on the first one

the chat got that

quickly wow

good job chat

I'm kind of surprised none of us have ever

said anything about Brian Scott

I mean for what it was worth

he was a notable driver for a little bit

I just think April of the O'Reilly

series for a good bit there yeah

I think he stopped racing

before we all really got doing

this kind of stuff

okay and now I do remember him in a 2 for RCR

did he ever

I'm kind of confused by that

there's a lot of RCR numbers on this list

but I glossed over that

believe if I remember right

he came back for like two races

in 2017

and he drove the three

I love the references people are having to old ones

like the dressing

Paul Newman baby

you're never going to forget that

damn dressing now after that

nope I was at the grocery the other day

and I was like we don't even need salad dressing

but let's go see what Newman's cooking up

these days let's see what they got

any new recipes new specialties

on the shelf

good job Danny start to pull away

well

I need to pull away

because I have a race to 50

prediction on the line

shoot I got to lock in next week

time for everyone to lock in

now chat you actually are getting involved

because it's time to make our weekend picks

and chat this is where you all need to come together

to agree unanimously

on who you're going to pick for all three races

this weekend

before we get into it though here are some weekend notes

and details again there are new track limits

via tire barriers

some notable drivers

Bollicky is in the 66 cup series car

Catherine Leggs in the 78

in the O'Reilly series we got Zillich in the 1

SVG in the 9

Chastain is in the Jordan Anderson

32

I just realized how bad I botched

it was

Ghazi Bergen

Shane Van Ghazi Bergen in the number 9

he's actually cousins with Austin Condrick

Chastain in the 32

Rajas in the 88

in the truck series Brent Cruz

I think Danny mentioned this earlier

he's talking about the O'Reilly race but he's also in the truck race

he's in the number 1 for TriCon

Adam Andretti is in the number 5

SVG is in the niche number 4

Almond Bingers in the 25 for Ram

Chastain is in the 45

for Nice I forgot Ross

and AJ or Ross I should say

is pulling triple duty as well

Destiny Spurlock is in

the number 69 MBM

truck she is the first black woman

to race in one of NASCAR's top 3

national series he's had a couple solid

arc around

Connor Zillich is running

the 71 spire truck and host of ours

in the 7

y'all get all that do you keep all that

straight in your mind maybe go to like Bob

or Bob's Twitter or J. Ski pull up the

entry list in case you forgot for when we get to

predictions just so you remember who's driving

what here's the race info

truck race is the this

is not really the name is this actually the name

of the truck series race

the bully hill vineyards

the bully hill

not Austin Hill the big bully but

bully hill vineyards

176 at the Glen

the 72 lap race stages are

2020 and 32 it begins

to begin is it Friday or Saturday

Friday it's a Friday

race at 430 eastern

Friday

all of these races

get that at the Glen tapped

onto it it just sounds

very it sounds nice it sounds

pleasant hello the good sour cream dips

at the Glen the cheese

it 355 at the Glen

all right

high as the defending winner but now for the O'Reilly race it's the mission

200 at the Glen

82 laps 2020 and 42

are the stage breakdowns that's a 4pm eastern time

start on Saturday on the

CW and MRN

Connor Zillich the defending winner

hopefully he's a little safe

for getting out of his car this time if he goes back to victory lane

having

bad flashbacks to last summer cup

races the go bowling at the Glen

100 laps they've added some laps this year

so 100 lap race 2030

and 50 are the stage links

3pm eastern start on FS1

MRN Sirius XM

SVG the defending

race

winner all right

Danny is wrangling Shuggs

our show our resident

show mascot

Shuggs is here to make all of the

predictions for

walking Glen is Shuggs giving us the

weather report this week yeah that's

what's up next I don't know Danny has the weather report on him

because I know Saturday Sunday looks a little sketch

I can get the weather report Shuggs

is being escorted off of the stream

now chat Shuggs is being

carefully handled off camera

we take great pride in

safety and health I'm slinging

around the room over here

streamer thing to do to throw

your cat let's not

let's not fall into that stereotype gentlemen

we've been so well behaved for so

long I would hate for it to all come crashing

down okay Danny weather report what do we got

from meteorologist

Jeff Bork he says this truly

sounds like a lazy forecast

but an unsettled

pattern across much of the Great Lakes region

will bring waves of light

to moderate rain at times throughout

the entire race weekend for what it's worth

Friday will be the day with the most

pesky light showers and those opportunities

for a few clouds drizzle and even fog

better upper level support coupled with

a surface low pressure to be

centered over Ontario this weekend will bring

more persistent rainfall in waves

on Saturday and Sunday

unfortunately a secondary surface low

forming in the southeast US stretching

northward to the southern mid-Atlantic

by early Monday will combine

the cold front from the aforementioned

Ontario low and full moisture

this will bring a shield of rainfall

into the southern tier of New York as soon

as Sunday

evening the timing is still

fairly murky as we are a few days out

but it certainly looks like some

semblance of the cold and damp weather

that Watkinsland is prone to in May

will pan out temperatures are anticipated

to at least remain above freezing

on the ground so no winter weather

concerns for the race weekend at this point

however he says he won't roll out

a few wet snowflakes mixing in

for anyone hanging out through Monday

watching further updates on this

forecast will help make things more

clear in terms of specific timing

as we get closer however we are

generally at the mercy of race control

of how things can go due to

wet weather tires and how

that is not quite as black and white

as running on the big ovals

you know I had a chance

to go to this race just some things fell

through about it kind of glad that

that happened and you know

spend mother's day with my wife

for her first mother's day and

probably good call be here

in the 60s 70 degrees

in Tennessee even if it's raining it's still

going to be warm and not Watkinsland mother

yeah I had

a cold front kind of playing

a factor of my fishing tournament last weekend

and it really kind of

disturbed things I thought they were going to go

and was on a end of the lake I wasn't too

familiar with but thankfully in two weeks

when I returned back to this lake it's looking like

much warmer conditions and

be back in an area like I'm more familiar with

nice going to be a different

race at Watkins Glen

the pick points look a bit different chat

you've pulled ahead by a slim

one point margin

over Danny B

I'm still not supposed to be here I don't know

what this feels like being at this point

in the year like this

and I have successfully tanked

in time for the road courses

I am nine points out

still within striking distance that means

I get first pick I get

the pick of the litter in all

three races chat gets the worst

pick in all of these though that's

unfortunate good news for

y'all I mean especially the truck in O'Reilly

fields I feel like are pretty well stacked

trucks especially there are a few good options

in that race so you know it's not

being up in the lead is not that great

of a disadvantage but I'm about to get a hell

of a draft I have a feeling

I'll kick things off with the truck series

win pick I am going with Connor

Zillich

in the Spire 71

has he ever won a trick race

I can't remember

I'm not sure that he has he blew his

debut at Kota I remember

has any more SPG ever won a trick race

I'm not sure SPGs

run a truck race has he run a truck race

I hope he wins one because I'm picking

him

alright Danny you're next

okay yes he has won a truck race

before

Jared's going with SPG

and I'm going to go with Lane Riggs

I think chat

was thinking about Lane Riggs but I think

their other pick is the one who I believe

is being driven with that I believe is

being driven by Brent Cruz is that

where they're leaning I think

so

looks like it

yep I think they're going with Brent Cruz solid picks

that's what I'm saying I think Brent's not a bad pick

at all for the truck series race

now it's time for the O'Reilly

series Saturday

my prediction earlier in the show

was that Zillich would get the better

of SPG at least two out of three

times this weekend

I feel like Sunday

is going to be a Shane Van Gisburg

in stronghold but I think Friday

and Saturday we'll go to the kid

give me Connor to win

yet again at Walkins Glen

in an O'Reilly car

he's done it already twice I think

alright

give me SPG

I'm on gate

chat I liked your thinking

for last race but not

in a truck series I do

want Brent Cruz for

O'Reilly series race actually

is Lane Riggs running the O'Reilly race

because I want us to just pick the same four people

that would be awesome

and they were definitely going Brent Cruz before I took them

sorry chat

need an alternate who's your backup

I was picking SPG in the

truck race right they're saying that we

skipped my pick no I picked SPG

no you picked SPG

you just went quick because it kind of goes without saying

yeah it's

yeah

oh man they're going too far

I guess it's all guyer I think seven a lot

I definitely think they're leaning all guyer

which I mean when in doubt sure

go with Justin in the O'Reilly series

alright give them all guyer

time for the cup series

we always start with our who's going to suck pick

for the cup series race at

in this case at Walkins Glen

I know

yeah the blue and white

and gold medello car looks great

but Brad at road courses has been

average at best

Kota was a little bit of a pleasant surprise

I still think he ran 20th so I'm going to go Brad this week

I need to

pull it up because it just went off

on my end but I went on

driver averages so the last three races

at Walkins Glen

when I was doing these and

this guy

he ranks 35th

out of 49 drivers

with a 25.7

average finish at the Glen

in his last three

I am going Kyle Larson

Chase Elliott's

tied with him by the way

and I'm going Kyle

Bush

Chad's going Fox

although if not Fox it looks like they're also going Brad

can we be a little more original

the rest of the year

give you a Fox on

like the Dover race

just to end it out on a sour note

by the way Barbara Brannon

saying Tyler Redick we're not picking

wind right now this is a suck

you just picked the guy who won

Kota the suck here

so who's the driver that they picked outside of Fox

I think they went

maybe Brad

I've seen more six than anything

I've seen a lot of 11 too

yeah some Denny in there but now

dark horse pick though dark horse

picks at Walkins Glen

and this is where I am going to say

Kyle Bush I'm going to believe

that hey they're decent on road courses

I'm going to buy that there's some positive momentum

after the speed they showed at Texas

I think he's good for a top 10

I'll give Kyle Bush for a top 10

this guy's been pretty

decent actually at Walkins Glen

I'm going to go Noah Gregson

top 10 maybe

until I see

any more

like solid evidence

that they are capable of

giving him a car good enough to

come close to the win

I can only put Zillish in as an underdog

right now so I will say underdog

for this one I did not have him winning this weekend

alright

and the chat is pretty unanimously going Michael McDowell

which is a very good pick

he has been very good at Walkins Glen the last

few seasons and he's been

in kind of a slump lately we've talked a lot about his teammates

Jose Var even Daniel Suarez

we haven't spent much time talking Michael McDowell

so this is a

I think he was top 5 at Kota

he needs a top 5 this weekend

he's 23rd in the points now

yes he needs a good race

he definitely does

I wouldn't be surprised if someone takes him to win

it's time for our cup series

win picks I am kicking things off

I've kind of spoiled my picks at this point

I'm going Connor Connor

and then on Sunday

I'll go Shane

I know there's a lot that can go wrong

but especially if they're racing in the rain

remember when he did it to the field at Chicago

that first year

I think I got to go SVG

what about you Jarrett

I was thoroughly impressed by Connor Zillich at Kota

and he would have won that race in my opinion

if he didn't get spun twice

he was the fastest one out there

he was faster than SVG almost all race

I'll take Connor

I'll go off on that limb

I will finish

what the chat started with their pick at

Watkins Gun was Zillich last year

man

I just hope he qualifies good because he qualified like 25th

at Kota and that was that put him

behind to start

Danny how about you

who are you going with

I'm going to get my number two pick

Tyler Redick

good pick good good good pick

chat oh I'm seeing a lot of

17's

I think they're going busher

I saw a lot of 45 too

but I took that one off the board

they should take him

because my number three was Chris Busher

I think

they're going busher there's a few mix there's some bells

there's a good number of bells

a couple hosts of ours

but I think they're

I think it's pretty solidly Chris Busher

I had Busher down in case Jarrett

shocked me and took Redick instead

Chris Busher

good pick good good pick

Danny's going to be really popular

with our cup pick being

a Toyota driver on Twitter

oh yes yes

Danny best pick but Danny knows Will

so real quick so truck

Eric has Zillich

I have SVG Danny has Riggs

and chat has Cruz

then for O'Reilly Eric has Zillich

I have SVG Danny has Cruz

Allgaard for the chat and cup

SVG for Eric Zillich for me

and Redick

for Danny Busher for the chat

so I just want to make sure everybody knows

as we're heading out and I got the right ones

but it can be a fun weekend I think

you did yeah it's going to be

an interesting race week in that truck series field

Friday afternoon is stacked

alright folks we'll appreciate

you all tuning in tonight before we wrap

things up we do have our final super chat

stage break going to get to all the super chats

we missed but I do want to say huge

thank you everyone for hanging out with us tonight this is a fun

show one of my favorites of the year I feel like

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stage break we left off with below

the apron says bet Joey

is missing the old format he's in survivor

mode from here on out no lucky fuel mileage

win to lock him in like you did at Nashville

a few years ago

yeah those facts no one race

is going to save your season got a stream

together some good finishes

Justin Drake says

watching the replay of

Lugano running into Custer to the beat

of all the back girl

he tagged me with that one it is actually

pretty funny I'm not gonna lie

oh I didn't know that was an actual edit that somebody made

that's me I think he made it

oh shout out Justin

little video meme editor extraordinaire

Bailey Reikert says Joey

hasn't won a race in 367

days a whole year yeah we talked

about Larson's win this streak Lugano's

on a very similar one right now

eerily similar

Ryan Idias says Lugano is that

Wolverine meme with the playoffs you know

like just like crying over the picture

frame Brett

says we've already had three races with a combo

of Elliott Hamlin finishing one too

how cool would it be to see those two top two

in points with five races left in the chase

know they're good now but rivalry renewed

I feel like

their fan bases are going to get

spicier than the drivers would but

it would be cool to see two happy

yates go at it late in the year

Jeffrey King says Lugano makes

the chase by one point and then wins

five out of ten races

I kind of said that earlier

I respect

respect if you can get that many

that's that's impressive

Sam I am says did you see the keselowski

scheme that looks like Rusty Wallace's

scheme yeah it does a little bit yeah

I liked it look it looks super clean and

nostalgic the old school one

with the white front yeah

mm-hmm

Intimidator racing ink

says what do y'all think RFK will do

once they lose their third charter will Brad

retire will they let preschool buy

someone else's charter

I mean I think it's all hands on deck to try and get a third

charter somehow some way even if there's someone

they have to rent it from for a year

Brad has said he might want to race for another

seven or eight seasons so I think Brad retiring

is like you know break

glass in case of emergency

I don't know I'd hate to see priest

go because I think he's having a really solid season

I think they all are but I do

think priest is kind of the awkward third

wheel right now but there's there's an I asked

priest about this this weekend and

I mean he made it the point like they're still

they still got almost ten months to figure

it out they got until February to get something

squared away so hopefully they do

because I think that team right now has a really solid

three team lineup

Derek thanks for the super chat says Daniel

Suarez with another finish with him being

with another good finish with him being 30 points up

on the cut line is this Suarez is best season

so far I think so far

probably he doesn't have a win but

top 10s top 15s quality

points position

and considering the expectations coming in

I think we all thought this was maybe a lateral

move

he's proven that it's an upgrade at least thus far

Dodge thank you Dodge

says is Penske's struggles

could Penske's struggles be them

going to Dodge and RFK becoming

the main Ford team

I

would be surprised if Penske left

Ford at this point anytime soon

I guess never say never

I mean Blaney's not really struggling it's the other two

that are just a little more inconsistent

we'll see I know I think I think Penske

is staying with Ford for the long haul

Justin Drake

says he gets us

and Ryan Priest was doing the God's work

harsh

then says Jeffrey King

says I really feel Toyota

peaked too early and they know it

I'm not sure how much of his Toyota peaking

versus as we've talked about

Chevy struggling out the gates trying to

understand this new body

and Ford just being Ford

just being consistent up and down

I don't know I think Toyota may keep getting

better as well the question will be just

can Chevy get better faster

and can like Ryan Blaney stay at the top

of his game that's the real question

Jonah's stuff did you hear

this is what we talked about did you hear that

host of our friend who went to the Met Gala with him

commented on Sabrina's post saying it was great meeting her

has he got that bag

sounds like host of ours playing

his cards close to the vest for the time being

that sneaky son of a gun

couple more from Jeffrey King

here says priest saying that on the radio

it is why not the

crash oh yes why he got penalized no

I agree he doesn't say anything in the radio there's no penalty

I just think it's silly that that's all it

takes

hell yeah highlights of Dale senior but minus

25 points for priests I mean yeah

it is kind of like Jared I think said earlier

the optics aren't great

from Justin again

grandpa I got wrecked

what an what an ass Joe Gibbs

you cut him off and

you messed around and found out

you had it coming

strong comment from Justin of course

Sam I am says 2027 season

a lot of drivers with one year contracts

I mean yeah I think a lot of contracts

in this sport now are short term so year to year

there has to be a lot

of turnover Jeffrey King

this is an Elliott and Allgaier fan Larson

has broken my heart a lot

I'm sure sure I'm sure still flashbacks

was it indie last year when Larson

got into Allgaier late in that race

wasn't it the two of them that got together

someone correct me

a few from Indy Carson here real quick

says hey NWP NASCAR

Texas trucks love my name is

included Carson wins again

O'Reilly Larson Allgaier were exciting

Justin wish Justin pulled it off for his

first win in Texas then says cup

I guess Elliott was chased

most of this race the final stage to win this race

best drama was Gibbs versus priests and bush

versus Nima check what huh

Logano crashing into Custer on pit road

yeah that was my reaction I was like

what a jump scare

that says Eric how was your time at NASCAR

at Texas yeah

I had a great time it was

a beautiful weather Friday was

gonna be iffy it turned out to be just nice cool

little overcast great racing great fans

it was one of my favorite Texas

weekends in quite some time

Justin Drake again

says another career low light for Jake Garcia

wrecked Tony Stewart at Daytona

when half the field

at Texas yes

couple more from Indy Carson

what do you guys think of Steve O'Donnell

and Ben Kennedy leading NASCAR best thing

they can do is switch Walkins Glen to August

and Richmond to May

I mean I think Walkins Glen later in the year

hopefully that becomes you hopefully

that is a change they make next year then

he says biggest thing I have to share tonight

was my last week of

midweek ministries at my church for now

it's bittersweet but I know how much I made

a difference in elementary kids lives

but I'll miss them

that does sound bittersweet I was gonna say

that's great for you Indy Carson

hopefully they get another opportunity to do

even more in the future cause that sounds

really cool man

alright Jim I think just

reset on me so let me scroll up

JPG I believe

is next yes I'm tired of Kevin Harvick's

word of the week I thought he'd stop

doing them and that I've noticed in the last few races

so maybe I just wasn't noticing them

and they never stopped

I don't know that's the least of my concerns

with the Fox booth

Flying Cactus just says

hell yeah

I like how he's got the is that

Logano and Brad

what is that a picture

it's them and then I think it's the

Dente Mobile underneath

so I think it's like

so far it's coming up behind him

is that Brad or is that

it

I can't tell cause it's blurry on my

end is it Chase I thought

it might have been like old Logano and Brad

but yeah it's too small

yeah that's Chase

or is it Larson it says

SC Hendrick cars

back in the fire soon

Beast of Metal

Beast of Metal 1989

says a week late but I just want to point out

clear bias by Steven A

against anything not LeBron in football

well yes yeah that's what pays his bills

in 2023 he said a Stanley cup

by the New York Rangers wouldn't count

as a win for the city because hockey isn't

a major sport yeah wow

if he actually said that that's harsh

hockey fans coming to come at him

harsher than racing fans have

I think my favorite clip of the Steven A stuff

recently is the

where he clearly admits I don't watch it

no duh we knew that

I only went to

Michael Jordan's team because he and Hamilton

who is Hamilton

did you see Denny leaning into it

I think his social team posted like a Denny

Hamilton edit

rough

Chris John says Kyle

did give Cletus his name and was his boss at

1320 also helped many others start their careers

Cletus gave his condolences in his

video yeah for sure we're definitely

worth checking out that video as soon as we're

done here

where we had Justin Drake says Nima check

wrecking while in traffic everyone expecting a

caution like what happened in Kansas

NASCAR IDGAF golden boy

is leading no caution

well

uh we'll uh we'll go on

to Fred dog 81 says

RIP Alex Zinardi yeah we haven't talked

about that tonight but another racing

legend that unfortunately passed away

in the last few days

Fred dog says no matter what auto sport you watch

he was an inspiring figure that any driver

could look up to in terms of

pure courage well said

well said Fred dog 81

Jeffrey King says

Steven a face when the gun erected in the pits

uh Calypso says I hear host of ours next

visit is the locker of Davey Jones

perhaps he can be a visitor of Jarrett

when he inevitably gets dragged there

geez uh Eric

says Eric I'm agreed with you about everything

about Carson why wouldn't drivers do it

if I'm a driver as him I can do the same as

him that's that what's

the best for I think talking about the

Met Gala yeah having drivers that embrace

those opportunities

to go get themselves out there in front of another audience

for sure at Carson kind of guy

who's gonna say yes to an awful lot

I wouldn't like Blaney I believe said it

with Dale Jr. where he's like it was a lot easier

when I was a bachelor and now married

with a kid it's a little

a little more difficult like I totally can

feel that man like there were so many things that I could

do before getting married and having a kid or now

it's like no I just

can't go to that or like I need

way more heads up rather than a

hey you down to do this let's uh let's

just like drive 50 miles down

south and pick up couch before we like

hell yeah let's do it now it's like did someone

say couch yeah

okay

I'm not gonna say the joke I was

thinking oh okay

Justin says prediction one of the

kiles does something stupid

we'll see yeah okay it could happen

it's happened before

uh

but

Justin thanks for the super chat

Brian gets his taters from

Idaho

traced his heritage all the way back and found

he was part I don't know

Navajo

Lake Tahoe

just trying to like

beatbox Brian with Idaho

whoever threw that your moms

and Idaho

from Robbie racer says sorry Danny

but if you're Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick

who gets the 48 host of our or

Zillich ignore contracts

how can I have more contracts on both of those

to have rides

we're just living in a fantasy world

okay if both were just

free agents yeah he'd be a fool not

put host far in that car so but

walked in the 77 so your question

is mute

Danny does not want to live in this fantasy world appears Robbie

and I understand where he's coming

from

stay out of your fantasy land Robbie

Rowdy a die cast met him this

weekend yes as my first TMS

experience was fun super underrated track

it was great talking to Eric I also met Danny at Dover

last year so

left

I'm glad to hear someone say Texas was underrated because a few

years ago it felt like it was dying a slow painful

death facility felt outdated there was

no energy this week and I felt like

everything was was up and running as it should

be the crowd was buzzing throughout the weekend

I was excited to see Texas have some

renewed excitement

Bailey Reikert says Alex Bowman missed

a month of the season has already passed

wearing custard and points is on the verge of passing

Ty Dillon and Noah Gregson

well I do think conversations

unfortunately will need to be had about Noah Gregson

at some point and maybe front-row motor sports

more broadly but but Noah in particular

this is just not been a smooth

transition

out of relevance say ever since he left

JRM unfortunately well

they started getting a little something

at

and then the team shut down

yeah he actually had a pretty good season

it stood us their final year

and then and then he brought the same crew chief right

to front row so I thought oh

plug-and-play they should not miss it to

they should be okay and then it's been the worst

thinking of Gregson

I

I don't remember who posted this video I've seen it recently

it was someone asking all the drivers

what's your favorite meme right now and then Gregson

said I don't do memes no more

yeah their answers favorite meme

and I got on Instagram he's like yeah I don't

do that anymore

oh my god that was so

oh boy

what's your favorite

what's favorite Disney movie oh little mermaid

the Alcorn that Alcorn guy

not the he is that Alcorn guy

says this is my first attended Texas race

and walked away quite pleased hey hey I like

mean Texas needs to take these

these super chats and like put them in their

testimonials tab under on their website

pretty cool midway plenty of options for

concessions compared to my usual trips at

Bristol and Dega also priest Scott Rob

damn it I forgot didn't Texas they

they had some like wild

concession item

oh gosh what was it it was something insane

it was like a

burrito inside a fried tortilla inside

a chocolate shake

I don't remember it was something absurd I wish

I tried that

it reminds me of Texas yeah it reminds

me of the big one meatball that I had at

Talladega that was like ground

beef covered in ground chicken covered

in like ground turkey covered in another ball

of ground beef

and uh oh man

my guts didn't love it it's like a fried

turducken or something I don't know

it's a stone in the stomach

okay maybe was it was it this

Eric I just looked up insane

technical concession items

it says featured crazy concession for 2026

the glazed donut burger a wild

sweet meat savory

sacked featuring Texas

toast layered of crispy

bacon sugary glazed donuts in

a trio of melted American cheddar

and pepper jack cheeses that was it

I wish I tried they also got about

it they also had a PB&J

burger pecan pie filled

churros and spicy

mango ice chill

which is weak like an ice

we know a lot of Andy's custard so

we now go to Wilford brimley

for his reaction da beat us thank

you Wilford

flame haze says do Shane's

odds shrink if qualifying is

set by the metric uh I mean

if the qualifying set by the metric he probably starts

like I don't know

18th or so so yeah

he's probably gonna qualify better than 18th so

I'm sure he hopes qualifying happens

uh Calypso says ready to pull

some shenanigans for the gun this summer

oh god it's coming

Ryan says what drivers do you consider

to be a one hit wonder

type of driver?

yeah cause like Trevor Baines an obvious one

like a I don't know why David Ruderman

just popped into my mind did he get more than one win

I think he just had one

no he had 600 and then chicagoland

okay that's a one hit one

vickers one hit wonder

how many wins did he have?

he won michigan and talladega

he also had two dammit I'm short changing

these guys with Casey Mears that's a one hit wonder

unless he wins a race this year

he wins a rained out Daytona

500 next year and his last start

at 500 start

someone said Justin Haley

Kale Gale

uh where we at here

G-man bowman with two straight top

three finishes could have been a good pick

for underdog at the Glen if he stays

clean he can get another top five underrated

at road courses I hope he keeps the solid races

up he is underrated at road courses

uh especially Coda

I do know that I don't know what his walkins Glen numbers look

like by comparison says uh from palm tree

here my uncle won tickets

to the Xfinity race he went as his first race

I told him to go up by the fence for a flyby from the pack

his video he sent me was priceless

hopefully a new fan

I'm telling you Texas Motor Speedway

PR needs to be screen shotting these this is

great stuff this is the best PR that track

has had in the years

I'm glad we're giving you

we're giving you the product now like just make the

commercial I'm glad your uncle

enjoyed his experience palm tree

undernicks and fishing I've always thought Steve

O'Donnell was way over hated I truly

think he cares about the sport and longevity of it

I mean I I agree too

doesn't mean we have to always agree with every decision

he or really any of NASCAR

past leaders have made I do genuinely believe

O'Donnell and most of NASCAR's leaders care

about the sport I think I do think it's

in one way it's good having a non

France family member in that position because

now like say

say Steve O'Donnell didn't care about the sport

I'm sure he cares about keeping his nice job

so he wants to do a good job just to keep

his job and doing a good

job would probably mean growing the sport

and bringing more revenue in and more fans

and stuff so yeah I genuinely do think

though O'Donnell cares about the sport I hope it goes

well I hope I hope the sport

is going the right direction here sooner rather than

later Jeffrey King with a couple back to

back says does all guyer win again this year

and how many yes he is going to win again

the question is how many

I could see at least two or three more wins maybe

four what's he at now three

three so far

he's at three was close to four

at Texas

I think he always feels like I got it can easily

win like six races a year

I feel like that's a reasonable guess

and then Jeffrey says prime glitched

Fox's cameras yeah but

he's talking about like as they took the checkered it like

went white for a moment that was weird

Philip

says a cumulative fun for your

new Texas Rangers cap oh gosh

stupid priest penalty

Texas is awesome there it is again

I'm not I'm not doing this

I'm not sending these

go Blaney hoping for a rainy weekend

this week but yeah definitely makes the racing

interesting I'm not getting a Texas Rangers

cap my wife has a couple though

so you know they're in our

house they're in our household they're just

not on my head and never will be

no matter how bad the Astros

season goes

you know the spies of the college called

Texas but then her go to baseball

team is called Texas it is

confusing it is very good if the good

thing their colors are radically different or else

you'd have a hard time red dog

for this mother's day who is on

your Mount Rushmore of NASCAR

mothers give me Linda petty with

her gun the rest can stay the

hell off the mountain

comment oh

gosh I don't know I mean you got

you got Harrison Burton's mom is definitely

up there oh yeah

she's got to be up there for sure the

only the only drivers mom I've really ever

just chatted with for a while was

Ross Chastain's mom met her randomly

in the basement of Bristol Motor Speedway

media center and me and Claudius

talked to her for a long time first time we ever met her

she was nice as could be

yeah Kim Burton has to be on I mean

did they have the Kim cam for how long

yeah for a while and when Brexton gets

a little older there's gonna be a Samantha Bush

the Sam cam

she is going to love being

NASCAR mom rather than NASCAR wife

yeah

they really

don't have I mean

yeah they don't really have many moms

I met Connor Zillich's

parents his mom as we know

is like a college like Olympic

level gymnast back in the day which is

pretty sick she was very nice the brief

conversation I had with her earlier this

season I think

oh Delana

Delana Harvick would I guess when Keelan

comes up when Keelan comes up yeah

I saw someone mentioned Ty Gibbs's mom

I mean Heather Gibbs is literally like

part helping run the show at Joe Gibbs

racing now which is pretty badass

except for a lot of way

I got one

Lisa France Kennedy

yeah

I mean

she's probably gonna be running the sport

in five to ten years he's one of the fastest

rising executives in pro sports

I love that

I love that you know he did

drive for a little bit and he did win a race

in the truck series

you remember when he got into a spat with Ben Rhodes

at Martinsville I think it was

they got into it in the garage

either in a

truck race or truck practice

I'll have to go back and find that that's a fun pull

especially for when he does start running the sport one

day

Ben Rhodes is still driving

he's the first one to get a penalty

under the Ben Kennedy regime

all right

we got a few more here

from Nate

I'm becoming

a hospital chaplain

there's like a period

okay

it's hard and master stuff

is no joke but your videos help a lot have been a fan for a while

since 2018

glad you're enjoying the videos glad you're enjoying the podcast

enjoying the show appreciate the comment

Nate from Ross Crash Dane

while making the driver's chase is unfortunately

unlikely can Alex get the 48

into the owners chase

this year

I'm looking for anything about that

yeah

because the 48 it didn't do very well without him

so I can't there are 29

I really want to show how bad the car was overall

there are 29

the owners points I'm trying to do the math

he is it's less than 100

points though I think it's like 80

it's not impossible

am I doing the math wrong it's like it's less than 100

points

let's see

who all does it need to pass that we

we think this car could be better than

85

38

34

47

can be tough

but more durable

I think you could get it at least up there to about where the 97

and 16 are

yeah

from Jonah

Godspeed to the Arca field if they were

end up racing in the wet on Friday oh my gosh

take a lunch break do whatever you have to do

to get in front of a TV if that happens

do they have what other tires

in Arca I don't follow Arca

it's closely I mean they run they run

Hoosiers right or no what are they running

general tire

general tires

I'm sorry generic tire

no yeah

there's just one in many way it won't look any different

somebody's gonna go after me on that one

yeah it won't look any different

yeah yeah yeah

we'll test those tire barriers

flame haze

Eric I haven't been to Texas since

2015 has the experience there

changed since

not a ton I mean I don't know it's

probably not

quite as busy as it was in 2015 I don't know

the crowd's probably a similar size I don't know

the midways changed all that much but the infield

I mean they've got a Hutchins BBQ

in the garage area now so if you get into the garage

get yourself a Texas Twinkie that's what I tell

everyone they do by the way they do run

wet oh heck yeah

then get to a TV folks

oh that's gonna be great

Derrick

thanks for the five kind of random but Austin Green

has been disappointing this season I feel like

he has had DNF in every race maybe it changes

this weekend he is a good road racer

I've not kept up with Austin Green season

that closely has it been that bad

there ain't nothing to keep up with

I mean what car is even in the

87 or something like that

87 most weeks I read maybe every

week yeah what team is that

I don't even know

is this still Jordan Anderson

I mean the font is the same it looks

it's I don't

I don't even know you know we should know that and

in fact I'm not moving on until I figure that out

the 87 is

listed as a

Peterson racing group

Peterson

that's right okay

I mean I don't know what you made this point

it in because I mean what are you

no offense what are you expecting out of that

which we're going into

but you should just give up

that's it

oh no it all went wrong

how much

have you used that sound bite

alright we were in the home

stretch here let's bang these out Justin

says hashtag remember the Alamo

PBR Smash says

hey guys you think McDowell is getting a comparable

a comparable car

at Spire at this point in the season seems like he's been

regressing I don't think it's that far

off honestly I mean it's hard

to put three good cars on the track every week maybe

he's getting the short end sometimes maybe they're just

missing it I don't know he did have some

good runs at the start of season but

I mean I think after you know you can only

do so much to keep up with your teammates you know

almost one day tona top

five at Koda so hopefully they bounce back here

this weekend Jeffrey

says from Texas been twice in 17

fall 21 all-star we'll hope

you get to make it back out there Jeffrey it's

it's on the up and up a little bit

Justin Drake says Stephen a fixin

to learn how a goalies oh gosh

oh how a goalie stick feels

slashing his leg oh man

don't let the hell on Justin

chill brother chill

not that serious

Cody says big fan

of the show Eric Hamlin has won the last two

Vegas races I'm not a fan of him even got

mailed a sticker

grr do I bother attending

the fall race

every race is different

you can only keep going for so long until

something changes so

I feel like Denny's not

the guy these days to like dominate

a single track he's kind of just good everywhere

like for a while it was like Denny at Martinsville

Denny at Darlington

Denny in the Daytona 500 kind of felt

inevitable now I feel like Denny's just

kind of good everywhere so

he's going to win some and he's certainly going to lose some

so I don't know

I like your odds of him not winning a third

in a row although he probably will be the favorite

going in

and then finally

perfect from Wyatt here

Texas Motor Speedway Supremacy

I love it

I've dealt with so many

Texas ass comments

what's dumber than Texas

nothing like what's the Spongebob line

the number of Texas Motor Speedway jokes

I've had to suffer through over the years

you would have suffered

for our home tracks in different ways

and then Denny has gained a home track

in Nashville in that time

Denny has five F1 tracks

like I don't know how this is fair

how is this fair

oh man

thank you all for the support tonight

we really do appreciate the super chats

again we will be back next week

same time different place will be at the

iceberg on the icebergs channel

8pm eastern time

this is one of my favorite shows of the year

glad you all could be a part of it

have a great weekend folks

enjoy Walkins Glen we'll talk to you next week

take care y'all

hit the f**k y'all here

you f**k this for too much time

oh f**k this f**king chill

no cap got a hang on here

don't ever drive

just let me do my job

I don't care if I wreck the whole f**king deal

I'm over him

that was an absolute bullsh**

not clear

awesome

what the f**k are you doing out here

people are saying

just raise your f**king idiot

I don't care

let me drive

what the f**king idiot

did you ever think you would see that

all the f**king that just happened

oh my god

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let's go baby

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