Hamlin Gets Three-in-a-Row at Pocono

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Diddy Hamlin dominates Pocono.
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Tyler Reddick's once impressive point sleep shrinks down to just 19.
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And now the NASCAR series is headed to Naval Base Coronado.
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All of that and more, and Lee Spencer joins us on this edition of Fast Talk.
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Now here's the host of Fast Talk, Doug Rice.
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Glad to have you with us here on Fast Talk.
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I'm Doug Rice, joined by Alexis Erickson, and Lee Spencer drops in for the show today.
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So thrilled to have two great folks to chat about the same thing we've talked about the last couple of weeks, Alexis and Lee, then that's uh Denny Hamlin winning races.
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And smashing records.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's what he seems to be doing on a regular basis these days.
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We have our now third win in a row from Denny Hamlin this past weekend at Pocono and um started on the poll and and you know got the checkered flag first.
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Lee Spencer, should we be surprised by uh any of this that's going on right now?
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I would say not, and simply because what Denny has been able to do leading up to this, just think about last year, right?
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He, for all intent and purpose, had the championship in hand until a late race caution.
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We might be talking about Denny Hamlin as the 2025 Cup champion, but you know, if that happens, then it probably doesn't make this run he's having as spectacular because I said to Chase Briscoe, and you guys were at Dover, you watch this firsthand.
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It's almost like he's laying in wait for that perfect opportunity to pounce, and he's letting these younger drivers think, oh, I've got a little taste of it.
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I'm so close to getting the first victory of the year, and then Hamlet just snatches it out of their hands.
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So it has been in such a dramatic fashion.
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And let's not forget last week, 11 second lead to the finish, no mercy run at Michigan.
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I mean, come on.
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I mean, he is playing with these guys at this point, and I am having so much fun watching this.
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It it seems to be, and I think that what makes the story even better for me, Alexis, is the way that last year ended.
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You didn't know how this was gonna go.
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You didn't know that could break a lot of people.
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It could.
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I mean, if you don't have the resolve to to come back from that, and not just what happened at the end of the season, but all the things in the offseason that happened too, the tragedy uh with his family, and there was just so much happening in Denny Hamlin's world that you know a weaker person could have said, you know what, I just I can't handle all this.
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I can't I can't do that and do this at the same time.
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But but that that's not Denny Hamlin.
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He can do like a million things at the same time.
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Like, at least that's what he's been training us to believe over the past few years because he does.
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He just he he's so good at um compartmentalizing things.
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And when he's Denny Hamlin the race car driver, he is the best version of Denny Hamlin the race car driver.
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When he's Denny Hamlin, the team owner, he's the best version of that, or um this this the disruptor that we've seen him be in the NASCAR uh cup series as of late.
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So, I mean, I think the the bottom line is like Denny Hamlin, don't ever count him out in any sense of the fact in any sense of the word.
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Let's go back and catch his winning moment.
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The master of Pocano Raceway showing what he can do at the tricky triangle yet again today.
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Final time for Denny Hamlin in turn three.
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Here comes Denny Hamlin out of turn number three.
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He'll swing his orange Toyota Camry wide up against the safer barrier.
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Denny Hamlin comes to the start finish line.
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He becomes an eighth-time winner at the Pocono Raceway.
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Denny Hamlin wins the Great American Getaway 400.
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And he wins his third consecutive race in the NASCAR Cup Series here in 2026.
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And he did not let that race win get away yesterday at Pocano.
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Three in a row there for Hamlin.
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Uh let's uh grab a little bit of the victory lane.
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It's just been an amazing run.
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I I have never been through anything like this.
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He's not afraid to put me seventh or ninth and say, all right, we got to go past those cars now.
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Um restarts have been a lot better over those last month, and you know, we've we've gotten that a lot better.
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So we just we keep finding little areas where we need to improve and making them better, and this is what you get.
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So Denny Hamlin sporting Kings Hawaiian and the Minions.
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The minions.
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I know.
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I'm I'm currently looking at a picture of him um on Twitter where he's got in in Victory Lane, where he's got the like minion goggles on.
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I love it so much.
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And Lee, I do think this is made for a fascinating story, and we do have to talk a little bit about the points.
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We're gonna jump into that in in depth a little bit later on.
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But it just seems like right now I we haven't seen maybe this kind of play except for Larson.
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I feel like his his championship year, it was almost a foregone conclusion.
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He was gonna be a factor.
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Right now, I feel that way, especially any oval we go to, that Denny Hamlin's who you gotta beat.
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Well, that might be the operative word oval because he said, you know, even at Michigan, and I know he reiterated it at Pocono that just give me a 15th place finish at the next two tracks.
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I'll be happy to take that.
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I'll stay home.
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You guys keep racing.
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Um, because he knows it's not as bread and butter.
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And I asked him specifically at Michigan, you know, do you really have to make the most out of these next couple of tracks on the ovals to kind of build your, you know, points up?
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And he said, absolutely, we have to make hay now.
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And he's done just that.
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What he was able to pull off though, three straight, it's kind of surprising to me.
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And I don't know if you, you know, you've been there for his entire career, um, to be a guy and just the fourth driver to win three races in a row from the pole.
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Uh, your hero, Richard Petty, was the first to do it in 1966 and 67, followed by Bobby Allison in 1971, and then DW in 1981.
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Think about that.
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It's been since 1981, since this kid from Southern Virginia pops into the scene and in his 21st season in Cup, pulls off um just not just three in a row, because it's the first time he's done that, but three in a row from the poll.
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It's just amazing to watch the level of maturation um that we've seen in Denny Hamlin.
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Here's the thing that I find interesting.
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We're this is the third week we're talking about this.
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This guy winning again.
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But Alexis, he's he's 45, as we've well documented.
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Most of the time you get to that age, you have that place where your performance level slips, but people still want you to do well because you're the senior statesman.
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We saw that actually come into fruition with Kyle Bush before his untimely passing.
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People were embracing him, they wanted him to win because of other things he had done in the past.
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Denny is defying that.
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He's getting old, but his performance is not dropping off.
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And in some aspects, it's getting better.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's not it's not just, you know, at a plateau.
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It's it's at, you know, it's it's starting to get to reach a peak, I think.
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And he's doing fantastic things on the racetrack.
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When you think about, um, you know, and Lee mentioned the ovals, like obviously that is that is his bread and butter.
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We're going to the road courses, we'll see what happens.
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I still think he's probably gonna have pretty good runs the next couple weeks.
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And even if he hasn't missed up here or there, it's not gonna do much um, I think to knock him off his game later in the season.
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When you look at the chase races that there are, like I don't know how other people, other drivers in the field can't look at that and go, Oh no, we're in trouble.
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Because when you look at I mean Darlington, Bristol, Vegas, um, Martinsville, like all of these racetracks that he is fantastic at.
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And and he's just getting better as the season goes on.
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It's it's gonna be um I think it's gonna be fun to watch.
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And the amazing thing is Reddick hasn't fallen off the side of the earth.
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No.
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He's still doing okay, Lee.
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I mean, week in and week out, he's there, he's in the top five or the top ten.
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But when the guy that you're fighting with the for the number one spot is winning every week, it's hard to keep up.
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You know what I love about this moment, Doug?
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And as I said, you you have seen a lot of racing and a lot of different team dynamics over the course of your career.
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But what we're watching right now at Toyota is for all, you know, again, a 10-race team.
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Ford used to tout Ford one, Ford one, this, that, and the other.
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Ford is not working together as one.
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Toyota is, and they've got a 10-car factory backed team.
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We saw the benefit of it yesterday at Pocono, especially to see John Hunter.
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This was John Hunter's week.
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Last week it was Eric Jones' week.
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So you put in legacy with the 2311 Joe Gibbs Racing Partnership.
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They just keep on gaining.
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And going back to Tyler Reddick, as you mentioned, he's not going anywhere, but they feed off of each other.
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He has helped Denny, telling him what he needs to know going into San Diego, going into Sonoma.
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Um, you know, Tyler is a really decent road course guy, as we saw at Coda.
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Um, but they help each other.
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Denny really helps his teammates at Joe Gibbs Racing, but he helps his own drivers at 2311.
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Just a one point in general I'll make real quick is Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell have said time and again how Denny Hamlin at 44, this was last year, they've added to it this year, outworks his younger drivers.
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That's the reason he's on top.
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He has perfected how he prepares for each and every race, and we're seeing the benefits of it now, and it's just amazing.
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Denny Hamlin wins at Pocano.
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Tyler Reddick in second.
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John Hunter Niemacek fourth.
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Sixth went to Eric Jones.
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Ninth was Ty Gibbs.
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Half of the top ten cars were Toyota.
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Chase Briscoe was twelfth, sixteenth was Riley Herbst.
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Bubba Wallace got in a candy one crash of the day, wound up finishing 21st.
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Christopher Bell, they made a gamble on fuel.
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You knew it probably wasn't gonna work out, but it was interesting over the last few laps.
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Uh, he did have to come to pit road and wound up finishing 26th.
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That is our Toyota Performance Report.
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We'll start looking ahead to Naval Base Coronado and a couple of road courses that await us next.
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How does Chase Briscoe win?
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With the hands of his pit crew changing four tires in under nine seconds, the voice of his spotter carving a path through the pack, his race engineer, systems engineer all working tirelessly to shave off a tenth of a second with his team at Toyota, his crew chief, his fans, his family.
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It's all of this all at once at 200 miles per hour, from the moment Chase joined Toyota to the moment he ends up in victory lane.
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So how does Chase Briscoe win?
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I did a couple of things this weekend that I don't normally do.
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I spent 45 minutes watching soccer.
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Yeah.
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Maybe 45 more minutes of watching soccer than I ever have in my life.
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I bet you there's a lot of people listening to this show that can relate to that while the World Cup is happening.
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And uh, you know, it seems to be the sport of the moment.
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So a lot of people that don't normally watch it are watching it.
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Lee, did you take in any of the of the beautiful game?
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A little bit.
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My son is a huge soccer fan.
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Um, he actually has a website called the Soccer Sheet and follows the Charlotte uh team pretty readily.
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I mean, he's really made it, it's it's kind of funny, you know, the next generation of uh my family going into journalism, but he he has a website called the Soccer Sheet.
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He he covers the Charlotte FC team.
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Um, and he's just huge.
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We actually, for Reed's 75th, my husband Reed, his 75th birthday and Sam's 40th birthday, we went to London last year to see Wimbledon, who's Sam's favorite English soccer league team uh play.
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So yeah, we're we're into it.
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But I have to say, watching the Canes la uh on Sunday night win it all, bringing back the second trophy, the NHL trophy, that was a bigger, that's a big deal to to us.
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That was the second thing I did.
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I watched, I watched hockey, which I'm not normally very little bit of hockey, except Olympic hockey.
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Yeah.
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But I turned over last night.
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I knew they were winning two to nothing, and I thought, I'm not gonna turn it on because they'll lose.
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Yeah.
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And finally, with about three minutes to go, I turned it on and watched the Carolina Hurricanes win the Stanley Cup.
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My husband is a huge Keynes fan, so it was a big deal in my house.
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Um, and he was very excited to to you know secure the Stanley Cup uh win last night.
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But I will say, um, in regards to the World Cup, one of my favorite things is I'm not really a big soccer fan.
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I'm not gonna go on here and say that I am.
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Um, but one of my favorite things to take in during all this is happening is when you see people from other countries coming to the US and then talking about it on social media.
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Like I saw a post where I can't remember who it was um or what country they were from, but they went to a Mexican restaurant and they were shocked that they got chips and salsa for free.
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They were like, we did not earn this.
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This is we did not pay for this.
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I think that was somebody from yeah, I think they were German.
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Yeah, and yeah, they they got a kick out of it.
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And I mean it was like the fast food thing blows a lot of these country, you know, the foreign travelers away because they're just not used to seeing that.
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And I I just get such a kick out of it.
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And you know, that's why I like to see the world because I like to experience their perspective, and I think it just brings us all closer together.
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Absolutely now.
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I'm sad now that people come to this country and the thing that they are most impressed with is eating garbage.
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Well, you know, we are we are known for a few a few of those types things.
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Yeah, we are Taco Bell, right?
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Here's some cholesterol.
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Welcome to America.
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But it's some of the funky names that they, you know, at the foreign um like a McDonald's, uh what they call, you know, Hungry Jack, I think is is um Burger King.
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And it it's like, you know, some of the some of the names they give it, it's it's a hoot.
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It's fascinating.
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Uh anyway, I I deviated off course.
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I enjoyed it a lot.
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Uh the Stanley Cup is a cool trophy.
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It might be the best trophy you win in sports.
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It's it's a pretty awesome.
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Is there a is there a racing trophy that is that you can point to?
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Or what do you think the number one trophy in NASCAR is?
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Gosh, I mean, I guess it really depends, you know, on what your favorite racetrack is, because that's probably going to determine it.
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But I think a lot of people look at the Martinsville clock.
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I mean, that's something that people talk about um all the time.
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I think the Charlotte Mutters B Way trophy's pretty cool.
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It's been the same um, you know, sort of piston inspired design.
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Yep.
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Um there's a there's a lot of guitars.
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The National Guitar, yes, also very cool.
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There's a lot of really cool trophies in in NASCAR, I would say.
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Obviously, Daytona's Carly J.
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Earl.
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That that's that's way up there.
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Um and the Borg Warner, I think, for IndyCar is pretty cool too.
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Yeah, because you get your face engraved on it.
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Yeah.
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That's very nice.
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It's very nice.
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And uh I I don't mind the Miles the Monster.
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Yeah, that is pretty seasoned over.
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That's number one, I think, to like kids under 10 everywhere.
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You know, I want that, you know.
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So that's cool.
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Anyway, I hope you had a great weekend.
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This is Christopher Bell, and you're listening to PRN, the Performance Racing Network.
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It's time for a PRN pit stop.
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Today we're getting to know Nick Yelman.
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Let's crack him up.
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Who's the first person you called when you found out you were joining the PRN booth this year?
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It was my dad, who, I mean, he's he's the reason I'm a I'm a racing fan.
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There's pictures of me in a crib just like hours old, and I've got like a Bill Elliott, like course light number nine hat on.
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It's like much larger than my head, and I have a large head.
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So he was definitely the one that I reached out to first.
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What's the best advice you have for an aspiring broadcaster?
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Well, it's gonna sound silly, but it really is as simple as call what you see.
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What's the craziest call you've made in your career?
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Turn number two for the Indianapolis 500 when Scott Dixon soared through the air.
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I called it live, and seeing Scott Dixon's car fly through the air in flame, fire, you know, debris everywhere, that was probably the biggest one that stands out to me.
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This was a PRN pit stop with Nick Yeoman.
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Well, there should be.
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Now has 64 career victories.
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He's won the last three in a row, and he is quickly catching his own driver, Tyler Reddick, who looked like who had an insurmountable lead, we thought, after the first 10 races of the season.
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Denny is now 19 points back.
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Lee right now, and actually Alexis used chat at GTP to figure out these uh these percentages here, which I'm I was impressed.
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Uh Denny Hamlin's record on road courses right now.
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His average finish is 14 points.
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And he does have a road course win.
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I did not know that until I should have known that.
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He won what 2016 at Watkins Glen.
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At a 14.3 average goes up against Reddick's 11.3 average.
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What will be the formula for success for Denny Hamlin at the next two races, which is Naval Base Coronado, nobody knows what to expect, and then Sonoma.
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What should Denny's high watermark be to get out of those two races?
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Well, as I said earlier, he said he would take 15th.
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I think if if he is running as well as he does now, he's in great shape physically, mentally.
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He's got the entire package going, despite what his record looks like.
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And as you said, one win compared to Tyler Reddick, who has four of his 13 victories have come turning right and left.
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If Denny gets out of the next two races, I would say with a 10th place finish, you know, maybe at both of them, or you know, somewhere 12.5 because he wanted 15.
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If he's anywhere under 15 for both of them, um I think that he'd be happy with that, but I expect more.
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As solid as that team is right now, that pit crew, he thanked the pit crew.
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Um, you know, thank thank Chris Gale.
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Thank the pit uh he loves the pit crew.
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Um I think that's one of the reasons he did the burnout right by where all the guys were coming up on the wall.
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But if he can come uh of those two races better than 15th, I think it's a win-win for the 11.
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Yeah, I mean, I would agree with that.
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I think um there's gonna be a level of um just survive for everyone going into San Diego.
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Correct.
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Um, and so, you know, if he can be on the better end of that than some of the other guys, then certainly that's gonna be um great for him.
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You look at how much of a point um uh of Tyler Reddick's point lead he's carved off in the last, what, like it's like a hundred points or something insane that he has carved into Tyler Reddick's um point lead.
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And if he can just maintain um that going into the following races after that, I believe he's got a really, really good chance of surpassing him for the regular season championship.
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So right now I think it's just um survive these next two.
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I I feel like if he can get out of these next two and he's maybe loses a little bit of ground, but let's say he's within 40 points of Tyler Reddick that's doable.
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I think it's very doable for Denny to win the regular season.
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I don't know how important that is.
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He's either going to go in first or second, it looks like.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And and I think I mean we've heard so many people, and I mean Lee's probably heard this too at nauseum since the chase has been announced.
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Like you have to be what third seed or better, some people say as far back as fifth, maybe potentially, but he's going to be well rooted in that area where that you need to be to be able to have a really good chance at the championship.
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And like I said in the previous um segment, you know, a lot of those chase races shape up really, really well for Denny Hamlet.
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He's only he's either going to be first or second going into this because I don't think anybody behind him can catch him.
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Yeah, Ryan Blaney's not gonna catch these guys.
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No.
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Ty Gibbs is not going to do him, although Ty Gibbs is boxing above his weight right now.
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So Lee, I feel like we've got a two-car race for the regular season title right now, and I don't see anybody else behind him that that's that can put on a string of races good enough to catch them.
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Doug, the only thing I'm thinking of is something finally clicks for the Hendrick Chevy's because they seem like they're right on the verge of figuring out this new car, and then something happens and it, you know, it kind of goes haywire.
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But when you start getting back to some of these bread and butter tracks for Denny and Chicago, Atlanta, North Wilkesboro, Indy, Iowa, Richmond, uh, you know, it's just this is just really lining up strongly for Denny Hamlin.
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And I think they're looking at those 10 bonus points.
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They still get 10 bonus points, right, for winning the regular season.
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Is that accurate?
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Yeah, I think 10 or 15, something along that line.
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Okay, okay.
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Um, but whatever that is, I can't, I cannot picture the way Gail thinks that that's not a big ass carrot that they want to put in their basket.
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Um, because it it would just simply put them in such good steed in case something happens going down the stretch.
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But the way that he's picking up stage points, the way he's picking up wins, cutting 122-point deficit down to 19 with those three wins, uh it's just amazing.
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But like I said, I started seeing this trend.
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Uh I mean, in earnest at Dover.
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I'm not saying that he wasn't great before that, but when he was just sitting there and toying with Chase Briscoe, and then he's sitting there at Nashville and he's toy toying with C Bell, it just seemed like he's having fun with these guys.
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I mean, it it's just over and beyond just typical strategy and perseverance.
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And can I just say how thankful that I am that Denny Hamlin is going on this tear?
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And I'll say that because if he wasn't, then there would be no drama for this for this regular season championship.
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There would be none.
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It would be Tyler Reddick and everybody else because of, you know, how he opened the season with so many wins in a row.
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Um, and so, you know, a lot of people like, oh gosh, Denny Hamlin keeps winning.
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:53.839
I I'm finding it extremely entertaining because he's giving us um, you know, at least even if it's only a two-person race, he's giving us a race here in in you know the middle of the season.
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And slight course correction here.
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Whoever wins that regular season title gets a 25.
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25.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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That's a big hit.
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That is.
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That could that could make all the difference in the world.
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Absolutely.
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So that's that's a carrot to go back to what Lee was saying.
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That's a carrot worth chasing here.
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Yeah, you dangle that in front of Denny.
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He's I don't I don't want to flush away Tyler Ray.
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No, certainly not.
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No, no, certainly not.
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Or take away the fact that he has had a dream season.
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He has.
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But this is what have you done for me lately?
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Sport.
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Like all sport.
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Yeah.
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And what you've done for me lately is won three in a row and cut down uh Reddick's lead to 19 points.
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So that's what it is.
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:43.039
Hey, by the way, Shane Van Gisbergen is showing up at Naval Base Corinne.
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Is he?
00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:43.839
Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, everybody else is like bummer.
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We should take that week off.
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Is it foregone?
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Do we just go ahead and put his name on the trophy barring something catastrophic?
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I'm thinking with this style of road course that they have laid out, street course, whatever we're calling it, um, that it placed right into his wheelhouse for him to have run on so many different venues, so many circuits, um, and so quick to figure them out.
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I mean, look at him.
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First time, Chicago Lamb, boom.
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Who the hell is Shane Van Gisbergen?
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Couldn't even say his name right.
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Couldn't get his name right.
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Wow.
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Oh no, I mean, we're, you know, it's just easier to say SVG.
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It kind of rolls off the tongue easier.
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But for him to be in that position and just he comes out of nowhere and wins the inaugural event, and then he's on your map.
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I will say, watching what he was able to do at Nashville, um, you know, better at Dover, better at Michigan, if qualifying really seems to be the quagmire for that group because he said it's so different from what he did back in, you know, back in Australia, how they qualified there.
00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:02.720
Um, so if they ever figure out qualifying, will he be up with Denny every week?
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Probably not.
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But I see top tens regularly in his future if they can just get over that qualifying hump.
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Um, that being said, road courses, that's his wheelhouse.
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Um, you know, everyone else is battling for second.
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But with my luck, somebody will come out of the blue.
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Um, you know, it's a home track kind of sort of for Zayn Smith.
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He could be somebody that, you know, surprises us, although um Poca no.
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:30.640
No, they're not.
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No, they're not.
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We're just saying words.
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:34.559
We're just saying words.
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We're just saying words.
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:36.960
Yes.
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Okay.
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SVG's gonna go and handing him the trophy, Doug.
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Yeah, right.
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He's gonna probably win by 15 seconds on a 3.4 mile road course.
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.519
Well, I mean, uh Denny won by 11.
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Shane wants to win by 97.
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Well, it could be possible.
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Let's I I would not put it past him.
00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:00.559
I mean, I have heard, and you know, we we we tend to hype things up a lot in the media.
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:02.000
That's part of our job.
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:16.000
And a lot of what I have heard about this layout, because it's a track that nobody has ever seen before, a course that nobody has ever seen before, is that it is extremely difficult, potentially the most difficult course that that these drivers have ever seen.
00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:32.559
Um, and to have someone like him who has the prowess of um picking something up like that so quickly and adapting to it so quickly, I think that is going to be um like, you know, the the best tool in the toolbox that he has that that nobody else really has.
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.400
I mean, and and don't get me wrong, all these drivers have had sim time on it.
00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:38.640
They've all done something of that nature.
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:48.559
But when it comes to the real world, what's gonna happen when we strap into these race cars uh and hit the go pedal, I think he has got an advantage way bigger than anybody else.
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:51.200
I will be shocked if he doesn't go out there and school the field.
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:51.519
Yeah.
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:57.039
And that's not Alexis, you're Alexis is really going out on a limb, isn't it you're absolutely right.
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:02.480
More uh you know, we're I'm in the scrums every week, and that is exactly what the driver said.
00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:06.000
The hardest road course ever that we've raced on.
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:12.720
And there's also they were talking about getting airborne, you know, there's places where they're gonna launch the cars.
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:18.240
I mean, it could be, I mean, this might be one of the most dramatic runs we've ever seen.
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.880
And of course, not knowing what to expect.
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:30.160
And the drivers who haven't, you know, been on sim or you know, gone down that route and and they're just gonna take it, you know, when they get there.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.559
It's gonna make for very interesting racing, the absolute unknown.
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:44.160
Alexis, I don't know that I've anticipated a race as much as I have this, maybe going all the way back to the first brickyard.
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:45.200
Wow, really?
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.200
I mean, I'm just that geeked about it.
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:50.400
I mean, I think it's going to be exceptionally cool.
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:52.559
I think it will be exceptionally cool too.
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.359
I'm I'm I'm excited to potentially see these cars launch in the air.
00:32:57.519 --> 00:32:58.319
I mean, I don't know.
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:02.000
That's you know, something we've never really seen too much before.
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:05.200
Um, and and just the atmosphere there.
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:22.880
I mean, I I also have heard that like they're gonna be minimal feet away from the water, and there's gonna be like just just um the picturesque nature of of what we see and what we witness and the event itself um all gathered into the 250th birthday of America.
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:28.400
I mean, I think it's it just is a story that I think people are gonna be interested in in seeing.
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:35.839
I feel like I've heard that the prime broadcast booth is actually gonna be on an aircraft carrier that's moored there.
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:37.599
It's not the same thing.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:37.839
Yeah.
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:40.720
So Okay, that's that's hard to beat.
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:48.079
That is that that's just hard to like if they don't have Tom Cruise come out in like the top gun, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be upset.
00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:50.160
He needs to give the command.
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:50.640
Yeah.
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:55.039
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It was a race dominated with fuel strategies and time spent on pit road more than it was side-by-side action.
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But one of the more intriguing things, and I made note of this on my Twitter account, and normally I'll put something out there and it may get minimal engagement.
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Yesterday I apparently hit a nerve with people.
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When I asked what do you think of the one o'clock start time, Alexis?
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Because they moved the race start time up two hours to get away from impending weather.
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Which is a bit unprecedented.
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Yeah.
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The two hours.
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Two hours is the biggest swing I've ever seen, except for the year that they moved up, I think, the clash in LA again.
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:11.679
Oh right, right.
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Yeah.
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I mean, this was this was rare.
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Part of it is because the prime doesn't they're not hemmed in with the restrictions that a network has.
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Yep.
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And it worked out beautifully.
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And I put I had over 300 comments on this tweet just asking people, what do you think of the one o'clock start time?
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Ninety-five percent of the responses was I love it.
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This is the greatest thing ever.
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I don't I concur.
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Yeah.
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I I do.
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I couldn't agree more.
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I I I had hard pressed.
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I had a couple of people say, I'm on the West Coast, but I get up and watch football games at 10.
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This didn't bother me.
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Yeah.
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But the overwhelming majority of the people loved it.
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I don't think it'll be changed because NASCAR wants that.
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And and NASCAR and the networks want those West Coast numbers that they feel like they get with a three o'clock start.
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I'll be interested to sorry, Lee.
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I was just gonna say I'll be interested to see the um the ratings come in and see how different maybe they are from a race that was at the same track that started later last season, kind of compare and contrast.
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Um, but I personally love it.
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I think um you give people the opportunity to enjoy the race and the broadcast and then um also still be able to do things that they need to do.
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:33.280
I mean, I think it was our Hank Lee that said, Look, I'm a fan.
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I watch every race, but I still gotta mow my lawn.
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Like, let me, I got other things I gotta do, you know?
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So um I I'm a fan.
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I'm a fan.
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This is absolutely the beauty of Prime and not having parameters.
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Not only do they give the fans fabulous coverage, um, you know, what Danielle Trotter's been able to do in the post-race and in the pre-race is is exceptional because they bring you stories you you're not gonna get on one of the big networks.
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It's just they don't have the time for it.
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And the fans have been begging for give me more post-race.
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I want to hear what the drivers have to say.
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I want to hear what the crew chiefs have to say.
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Tell me the story.
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And Prime has delivered that in spades.
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Moving the time up yesterday, I had to rearrange my schedule because we had planned everything for Sunday morning, which was going to really slam into the start of even the later time in the race.
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Moving it to noon here in Central Time where I am right now, it opened up my entire afternoon.
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I went and saw my cousin.
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I went and had dinner with friends, I saw the hockey game.
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I mean, it was a beautiful situation.
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And as you said, Doug, people on the West Coast get up.
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Even when we go to Hawaii at the end of the season, we get up at eight o'clock to watch that first NFL game.
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So I don't, you know, I know TV wants a lead-in to whatever big show they're gonna have, you know, whether it's football or, you know, some other event.
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But I have to say, this to me is Bill France time, and that's where the races need to start.
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I had other people make that comment on on my my Twitter question.
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It wasn't really a poll, it was an open-ended question.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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And I I'd like to know more about the metrics of why they are settled on this three o'clock start time.
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Yeah.
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I I know it has to do with TV viewing because that is the most almost the most singularly important thing that there is in this game.
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Get eyeballed.
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Sometimes does it get us into trouble with weather though, Doug?
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Yeah, when you take it that late in the afternoon, you are running the risk of afternoon showers.
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I mean, time and again, we have just been, you know, put into such a tight box.
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And then you run the risk of not getting the advertised distance, which the fans at this point, and you've heard it from fans, you're in contact with them through you know throughout the course of your business.
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Um, you know, fans are are spending and I hate to use, you know, hard-earned money, but in this economy, what they spend to go the racetrack, this is a luxury for a lot of people.
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And to cheat them out of a hundred laps, I mean, it it's you know, it's not fair to the fan base.
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I can only tell you of uh the races when I was going to all the PRN races, how many times I have sat in the tower and it's beautiful, and it's one o'clock in the afternoon.
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And then by the time three o'clock rolls around, it's raining, or we're we know we're going to be interrupted by weather that we could have easily avoided with that one o'clock start.
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And I just I'd love to see him go back to it.
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I don't think it'll ever happen.
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Uh just judging from my very non-scientific poll, race fans love that one o'clock start.
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I thought it was awesome.
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It worked yesterday because I mean none of us were there, but from people that I know that were boots on the ground, it pretty much started raining as soon as the race was over.
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So had they gone at the scheduled time, they would not have got and then it would have put in it would have put the industry in a bigger box because there's a very, very tight turnaround to get to San Diego.
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So there was a lot for them to consider, and I'm glad that they made the decision that they did.
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:23.519
Lee mentioned Prime and the fact that they have the freedom because they're not tied in with network programming.
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And I will say this to every sports fan out there that talks about streaming like it's something evil.
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It it is going to be the way we get sports eventually.
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:42.960
Eventually, every sport you watch is going to be a streamed product.
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And that's that's just going to be the nature of it, or a great deal of it.
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And as we've seen with Prime, there are pluses to that.
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Yeah.
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There are there are things that are better because of the fact that they're on streaming.
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And this is one of those examples.
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And you're paying for everything you get.
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If you have cable, guess what?
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It's they're not giving you that.
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Right.
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Spectrum is not giving you free cable.
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Yeah.
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So you're you're having to pay for that unless you're that very rare person that has an HD antenna on top of their head.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And uh streaming's here to stay.
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It's not going anywhere, and it's going to be more prevalent in every sport moving forward.
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How did that help you this time to take this victory from a grassroots perspective?
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I definitely felt like Morza was a lot harder than the other one.
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That's PRN's at the track.
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Appreciate Lee Spencer dropping in with us today.
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You can catch Lee on Sirius XM NASCAR radio.
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By the way, watch the post-race coverage.
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And you can see Lee scurrying around back there getting her interviews for Sirius.
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I've seen you kind of body check a couple of people, it looks like.
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Oh, I do.
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:16.159
I am so respectful of my fellow reporters out there.
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:18.239
You've been down there, you know what it's like.
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It's it's it's a fun beat, though.
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:44.239
And Doug, in all my years, and and I told my bosses this, we had an air check last week, and I'm like, Denny is turning into the biggest thing we've had in the sport since the Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, Terry Labonti, that era when all the drivers were bigger than life.
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Denny is kind of growing into that bigger than life character that and Alexis was right.
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We so need this story right now.
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Yeah, we do.
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And after his heartbreak, and I was there when he got out of the car at Phoenix, and that was just probably the most brutal interview.
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:11.519
And I don't mean from his perspective of of what he was putting out, but just the heartbreak.
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Um it was just unbearable to watch, you know, even a 44-year-old man just in utter shock.
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Um but it to see him turn that around, to turn that into a catalyst for this run he's on now, I am there for it in just so many ways.
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I'm trying not to be fangirl, but we pull for the story, and this is one of the best stories I have watched in in my 30 years.
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It is refreshing at a time that we need that.
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Let's uh let's move into this.
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:47.519
It's time for another edition of Green Flag, Black Flag.
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Alrighty, we have three of the finest mines that NASCAR has produced, ladies and gentlemen, in this room.
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I was gonna say that's a good thing.
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I think they're down the hall.
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I don't see them.
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I'll give that, I'll give that to Lee.
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And we're gonna put them to work today on Green Flag, Black Flag.
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I'll read several statements.
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If the panelist agrees, they give it a green flag.
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If they disagree, it gets a black flag.
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If they're all in unified agreement, that's the way that works.
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We got anything else if they give a dumb answer?
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Okay.
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Dumb answer is a dumbass.
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No answer's a dumb answer.
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Oh, that's questioning.
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There are no wrong answers here.
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All right, here we go.
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And the uh we'll start with uh Doug Rice.
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Okay.
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And the regular season winner for 2026 is Denny Hamlin.
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Green flag.
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Alright.
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Even though he's 19 behind, uh, I I think it's almost faded complete.
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Yeah, I mean, green flag, it's really hard to um to go against that uh at this moment.
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It's all about what have you done for me lately, and he's doing more than anybody else.
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All right, Lee.
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Green flag, hey 19.
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See ya.
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It's gonna, I mean, it we're it's gonna grow over the next two races, but once we get back on the East Coast, it's gonna evaporate quickly.
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All right.
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Here we go.
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We'll start, we'll go to Alexis Erickson on this one.
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1 p.m.
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start times are awesome.
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Um a thousand green flags, yeah.
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Thank you, thank you, sound effects.
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:26.960
All right, Lee.
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I agree, and for everything we spoke about in that last segment, bring back Bill France time.
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Okay, Doug Rice.
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I can't mash the little heart button enough.
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Hey, here it is.
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All right.
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Now, here we go.
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The next new winner will be Eric Jones.
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Lee Spencer.
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Eric Jones is first uh new winner for this season.
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Is that what you're saying?
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:55.519
Yep, next new winner.
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Uh I gotta black flag that because I think Hendrick will get there before they do.
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All right, Doug Rice, what do you think?
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You know, Brad Gilly's not here.
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But Eric Jones is his boy, unabashedly.
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So I'm gonna be the proxy voter for Brad Gilly and say green flag, Eric Jones gets it done.
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What do you think, Alexis?
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I'm gonna say uh green flag because I'd love to see it.
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You know, I think Eric Jones has been at this game a really long time.
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:27.840
I think he's a fantastically talented race car driver.
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And for him to be having this moment right now, for Legacy to be having this moment right now, for them um to be finally seeing the rewards of switching to Toyota, um, I think it would be I think it would be a great thing.
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So green flag.
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Alrighty.
00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:45.760
And Doug Rice, your Father's Day is upon us here coming up.
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On Father's Day, dads really don't want a tie.
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They want a nap.
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Oh.
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All day long green flag.
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And and oh, you don't have to take me out to dinner.
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Just kind of leave me alone.
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:03.760
Well it's too peoply out there.
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:09.360
This might be controversial, but the dad in my house usually gets to take a nap.
00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:10.800
Yeah.
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So whether it's Father's Day or not, he's uh he's napping.
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Um, but sure, I'll give him another one on Father's Day.
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:18.880
Lee, what do you think on that?
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:24.719
I think the uh nap deserves the checkers because usually Reed just falls asleep in his seat.
00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:27.920
So that's you know, he takes all the naps he wants.
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The secret is out.
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Hey, at 76, he deserves to nap.
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:32.159
There you go.
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:33.440
Doug Rice, it's yours.
00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:36.639
I have heard this story told over and over again.
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:40.480
Uh, do you know how old people fall asleep in a chair?
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They just have to have a chair.
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They just have to have a chair.
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Pretty damn it.
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:46.880
Sit down and the magic just takes place.
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:50.159
Well, that must mean I'm old then, because all I need is a chair.
00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:52.159
I wish I had to do it.
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.159
I wish I had that gene on a plane.
00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:55.599
I really struggle with that.
00:51:55.840 --> 00:51:56.320
Oh, I do.
00:51:56.480 --> 00:51:57.119
I'm great at that.
00:51:57.360 --> 00:51:58.719
You can sleep on a plane.
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Oh, easily.
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Easily.
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I wish.
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Even before it takes off.
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I mean, it starts going down the taxiway, and I'm out like a light.
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I I I have never had that.
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Our our previous race director, Alicia Lingerfeld, we flew to a lot of races and we always sat on the same row.
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She was asleep before they got off the way.
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And I I was and and she wake up ten minutes before we land.
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And I'm I'm sitting there, I'm afraid I'm gonna drool.
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My next flight is to Sonoma.
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Um a great one.
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Um and I'm pretty sure I will be awake for the entire flight.
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There and back.
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Uh flying into San Francisco.
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Yes.
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Horrible airport.
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Dallas is not my favorite.
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That's right.
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Actually, I don't have a favorite airport.
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Indy.
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Indy's a good airport.
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Daytona.
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Yep, Daytona.
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Manchester.
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And and there's a little sandwich shop in the Daytona airport that serves the best tuna fish sandwich on the planet.
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I'll second that.
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It's pretty good.
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It is pretty good.
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And it's like eight bucks.
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And it's so close to the racetrack, you usually see like um the blue angels flying around and all that.
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So yeah.
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Lot of cool stuff there.
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I don't know how we got off on that.
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I don't know.
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Glad we did.
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It felt good for me.
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All right, we'll take a break.
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Be right back.
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How does Chase Briscoe win?
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With the hands of his pit crew changing four tires in under nine seconds.
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:27.440
The voice of a spotter carving a path through the pack.
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His race engineer, systems engineer, all working tirelessly to shave off a tenth of a second.
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With his team at Toyota, his crew chief, his fans, his family.
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It's all of this all at once at 200 miles per hour, from the moment Chase joined Toyota to the moment he ends up in victory lane.
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So how does Chase Briscoe win?
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The next card cup series head to Sonoma Raceway.
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J F is working for the final time up here in turn number two.
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He brought a gun to a knife fight today.
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It's the Toyota Save Mark 350.
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The advantages internet card lights over Krisco.
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Fans jump to their feet to salute SVG on this beat and something here at Sonoma.
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Coming up to turn number 12.
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You'll see the chip flag.
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The Toyota Save Mark 350.
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Sunday, June 28th at 2 30 Eastern.
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We are in.
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Sonoma Raceplay.
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It's the Pitball, Food Max 250.
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Sam Bear now looking low at the start-finish line.
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:13.760
Bears trying to take away that spot from Lars.
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.079
Cruz got uprooted off the bottom of the racetrack.
00:55:16.159 --> 00:55:17.599
Sam Mayor's gonna look to the inside.
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:24.559
They try to go three-wide for Snap and they were fighting over that real estate there with Justin Almeyer and Larson prior to the reset.
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:32.960
The pitball, Food Max 250, Saturday, June 27th at 5 Eastern on PRN, the Performance Racing Network.
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One last thing.
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You're on deck, Alexis.
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What you got for one last thing?
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Can be anything on the planet that you want to talk about.
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:08.880
Doesn't have to relate to racing.
00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:12.000
Well, this one does relate to racing, but not NASCAR.
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:23.280
Uh this past weekend, Lewis Hamilton, who is one of the most decorated drivers in F1 history, um showed that never giving up you can you can reach your goal.
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:26.239
He finally got a win for Ferrari in Barcelona.
00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:38.880
I think it's his 106th win total, um, but probably one of the most special to him at 41 years old, which also, by the way, crushed me a little bit because I thought he was older than me, but he's actually younger than me by like three months.
00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:41.360
So that that was a bitter pill to swallow.
00:56:41.519 --> 00:56:47.599
But um, congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and team Ferrari on finally getting uh the win in Barcelona.
00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:49.039
It was really cool to watch.
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:53.360
It was uh a great um experience to see that through his eyes.
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:55.280
And I just want to say, don't ever give up.
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If you if there's something that you have a dream to do, keep at it because you never know.
00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:02.480
All right, the rallying cry in Galaxy Quest.
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:03.360
Never give up.
00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:04.079
Never give up.
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:05.039
Never surrender.
00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:05.760
That's right.
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He's an attractive man, by the way.
00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:10.639
Sure.
00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:12.320
All right, Lee, what you got?
00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:15.920
I tried to give up my man crush on Lewis Hamilton.
00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:17.199
Oh no, no, no.
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:20.800
I watched that from start to finish, which kind of leads into my other thing.
00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:23.360
You started talking about streaming.
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:34.559
I hate the fact that ne this weekend is going to be Prime's, you know, final race of the the run because what they do for the race fans is so important.
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:40.480
I took this week the past weekend off and I started watching things from start to finish.
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:46.960
And to get that kind of enhanced broadcast for the fans, I just so appreciated.
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:49.599
I appreciate the effort that they put in.
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:55.199
I was a little skeptical at first, you know, watching baseball on Prime.
00:57:55.360 --> 00:58:00.960
Um kind of got over that because of what they're able to deliver to the fans.
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:06.559
As a fan, uh, I can appreciate what you get out of that.
00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:14.400
And if you have any issues trying to figure out how you get prime, how you watch Prime, I'm here for you.
00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:18.079
Text me, send me an IM, I'll take you through the process.
00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:19.599
It's easy peasy.
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:23.280
You can hit re f rewind, you can hit forward.
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:29.280
Um, just so many options to appreciate the the game we love of racing.
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:31.039
It's it's going to be around, folks.
00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:32.079
Like I said earlier.
00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:36.800
Uh, you need to figure out a way to adapt to it because it is here to stay.
00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:38.320
It is not going anywhere.
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:40.239
And the Prime folks have done a great job.
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:43.360
That's not saying anything differential about anybody else.
00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:52.239
But the latitude that they have and the playground that they have is so much bigger and unencumbered as opposed to the networks.
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:53.840
Yeah, it's the little things too.
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:58.880
It's like being able to come on with just the visuals like five minutes, ten minutes before broadcast.
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I love that.
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By the way, the silent lap number eight that they're doing for Kyle Bush gives me chills every time it's happened.
00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:10.880
It's really classy and way to go.
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:15.599
Uh, whoever's idea that was, I they did it here at Charlotte Start, and it's caught on with everybody else.
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