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Laney holds off his buddy Bubba to win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
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Diddy Hamlin clinches the regular season.
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And now NASCAR heads south, the high banks of Daytona, for a little Saturday night under the lights action.
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Now here's the host of Fast Talk, Doug Rice.
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Welcome to the show.
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One race left in the 2026 regular season for the NASCAR Cup Series.
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And most of the big questions have been answered before we head to Daytona.
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One, that Ford is back somewhat.
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They've shown a lot of strength lately.
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And two, Denny Hamlin is the regular season champion.
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He will go in with a 25-point cushion.
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Let's hear how Ryan Blaney got it done at New Hampshire.
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White flag is out for Ryan Blaney.
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He'll cross the granite stripe, hoping to go back to back in New Hampshire.
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Has the lead he needs here on the final lap, going into turn number one.
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No lap traffic ahead for Ryan Blaney that he's going to have to navigate here in the next mile, looking for another win here at the magic mile.
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He is off of turn two and up to that stretch for the final time.
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Bubba Wallace hustled his way up around the lap car of Carson Hosebar.
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One final shot down into turns three and four.
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They're running similar lines, but Bubba doesn't have the momentum.
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Out of turn number four.
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Ryan Blaney's gonna go back to back in the Granite State.
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Blaney wins the Dollar Tree 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway by a half a second over Bubba Wallace.
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Nick Gilman with the call on the Performance Racing Network at the Magic Mile, where Ryan Blaney flashed again.
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Once again, I'm Doug Rice, joined today by David Styles and from Speedway Motorsports, Samantha Waddell.
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And David, it's apparent that Ryan Blaney loves it when we head to New Hampshire.
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I think those Penske cars just love it in general.
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They've been really strong on the short tracks all season long, and they're having a great resurgence through the summer here as we get ready to head into the last 10 races of the ray of the season in this marathon that will be the chase.
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We've got one left at Daytona.
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And oh yeah, they're pretty good at these speedway tracks, too.
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So I think this Penske push has been in full effect.
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I know Logano didn't have the day that he wanted, but Cindrick kind of middle of the pack, but Ryan Blaney, man, he's really, really good at this style of track.
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There was no stopping him.
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And I think that when we were talking about it earlier, you look at we earlier in the season it was all about Toyota and what Toyota was going to do.
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Ford's really come in there and really raiming through.
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I mean, what have they got?
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Four of the last six races, they have taken the checkered flag.
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So I think it really, when you look at that, of course, Blaney, he was unstoppable.
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There was really nothing that was going to come between him and that checkered flag.
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I felt there was a sense of inevitability when he got the lead late in the race.
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Yes.
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And I was actually texting with a couple of people that were in New Hampshire, and I said, I think it's done now.
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Bubba made it interesting, but I never really felt like he was going to get him, David.
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I mean, he led 115 laps, the last 74 laps of the race, and that's despite even having a little bit of a snafu there on Pitt Road.
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And his pick team has been in question marks all season long.
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But he said it in one of his post-race interviews when they give me a fast car and I have the ability to drive through traffic and put myself in a position to win races, we have to capitalize.
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And he's won two out of the last, what, six, seven races starting back in Echo Park.
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And to think that Ford had a 15-race winless streak up until that point when he won at Echo Park earlier in the summer, they're on a tear and he's locked up second place in the points now.
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I think that this could end up being a shootout between him and Denny Hamlin as we get ready to move into the later part of the season.
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And I think you would also be remiss though if you start talking looking at yesterday's race to not talk about Bubba Wallace and Josh Barry.
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I mean, the battle of the three of them was so much fun and it was dynamic, and it was something you wanted to cheer for all three of them to do well and to succeed because it was fun to watch each one of those scenarios and those schemes kind of play out.
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I felt like yesterday's race was entertaining, and I always want to walk away from a race going like, okay, I got something out of that.
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I had to be invested in this because you did have a story.
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It wasn't just a walk-off like we saw at Richmond and Iowa.
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I fully agree.
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And we also had wet weather at the beginning of this one where they put the wet weather tires on.
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And I think this Josh Barry story is just phenomenal.
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He doesn't have a ride next year.
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He's looking for a new home.
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Jesse Love will be piloting his car.
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But if you look at his stats, fourth straight top 10 for Josh Barry, he has more top 10s than a handful of drivers that are pretty competitive.
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Austin Cendrick, Michael McDowell, Ross Chastain.
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He's led more laps than Keslowski, Suarez, and Eric Jones.
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And that's a Pinsky allianced team.
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So we're kind of on this thread of the Fords are starting to matriculate their stats at the right time.
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Yeah, and I think that Josh was just fun to watch.
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It was cool to see that almost I'm gonna say the light come on in terms for like the fan base to see the driver that Josh Barry is.
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People have seen and know who he is, but to watch him drive and maneuver around the field was a lot of fun.
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I mean, in fact, he has he has led the most laps of any Wood Brothers car ever at New Hampshire with 73 laps.
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Wow.
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I mean, he was impressive.
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It was fun, it was exciting, and it gave you that extra energy oomph that you were looking for when you walk away from the race.
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And it's it's funny.
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This started at Indy, finished seventh there, he finished fourth at Iowa, eighth at Richmond, and then third at New Hampshire.
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As you said, a nice little four-race run.
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I don't know where this guy was at the first of the year, but after he got fired, it was almost like one, I think Ford has gotten better.
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And two, I think he's racing free now.
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There's no pressure to get into the thing.
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And ironically enough, I think his performance levels jump.
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He's building the resume.
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He's building a case for himself that, hey, I belong here.
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I belong in the cup series.
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I am good enough to run here.
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Someone needs to give me a shot.
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I know there are some open truck seats, there's some open O'Reilly seats, but if you're four consecutive top tens, you definitely belong in a ride in the cup series.
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And I think it's just a matter of time before somebody scoops him up.
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I know that we don't have the open availability right now for him to go somewhere, but I think that we'll see him in a car next year running something somewhere.
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I completely agree.
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He's too great and too exciting to watch to not see him land in a seat.
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He's got the resume built, he did the work.
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And like you mentioned, he's racing free.
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There's a handful of drivers who have gotten a contract renewed.
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They're driving like a totally different guy.
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Guys who have lost their seats driving like a totally different guy.
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So I think that there is something to that, the weight of the world on your shoulders.
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And now you're like, guess what?
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Let me just show you what I can do.
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Well, Matt Collins' gonna be on the show later.
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Let's see if Matt will give Josh a ride for next year when he rolls out the dog.
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Why not?
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It'd be good to see Dodge back in the Cup series.
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I'd be excited for that.
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Yeah, but for Josh, I'm happy.
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Always a very personable guy, easy to talk to, uh, has earned his stripes in this, but didn't show up with a bag of money to buy a ride.
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No.
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And and has done this, so good on him.
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We'll see.
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The future's not done for him.
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No.
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This is not a dead end.
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Maybe a it's a bump in the road, a pretty big one, but I don't think he's done.
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By the way, let's go ahead and hear from race winner Ryan Blaine.
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Well, the momentum that Team Penske has on their side is is great.
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You know, and Ford and um, you know, Team Penske in general have been on a pretty good care the last couple months, and it's been fun to work through it with everybody and try to get better and better.
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So just keep going.
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I'm a big believer in momentum and things like that.
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We just have to keep uh keep working at it, and hopefully we make a run at it.
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In our next segment, we're gonna break down the fact that he has make is making a big run for the championship.
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And what what is the the bet on Ryan Blandy right now?
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But first off, let's give you this Toyota performance report brought to you by Toyota Racing, your race, your story.
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Bubba Wallace was the highest finishing Toyota at New Hampshire.
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He finished second.
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Fourth went to Christopher Bell.
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Ty Gibbs was sixth.
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Seventh, Denny Hamlin, and Tyler Redick was eighth.
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And those were your top ten finishing Toyota drivers at New Hampshire, and uh what turned out to be a really competitive and fun race.
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We'll take a break, come right back, talk a little bit more about race winner Ryan Blaney.
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How did Christopher Bell become Christopher Bell?
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It started as a fire within, a drive to be better, faster, sharper.
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Toyota saw that fire, kindled it, gave it resources to grow.
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Hours in the simulator, weeks working with Toyota engineers, years of rigorous training.
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It didn't happen overnight, it definitely didn't happen alone.
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But that fire now forges a legacy.
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That's how you inspire the next generation of racing.
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That's how Christopher Bell became Christopher Bell.
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I'm Eric Jones, and you're listening to Fast Talk on 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 Yeoman.
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Let's trick 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 Tour's Light No.
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9 hat on.
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It's like much larger than my head, and I have a large hat.
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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, it's Fast Talk here on the Performance Racing Network.
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Samantha Waddell, David Styles, I'm Doug Rice.
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Let's go ahead and take a deep dive here on Ryan Blaney.
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For the first half of the season, the Fords were not to be seen.
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It's been an all-Toyota show, and it feels like and it looks like genuinely, David, at least the blue oval has eroded away a little bit of the dominance of Toyota, led by Ryan Blaney, of course.
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I think that the set of tracks that we've been at over the last number of weeks have been really, really good for Ford.
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Ford has been good on the short tracks.
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We've seen Joey Logano move from 20th to 9th in points.
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Ryan Blaney also with two wins in this section, and they're just they've got all this momentum going forward.
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And this is what I fully believe.
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I believe there's a Pinsky push after May is over, after the ND500.
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I know that that's not a thing that you can quantify, but they really know how to capitalize in these moments where we need to be good and we need to make sure that our program is on track.
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And if they get their intermediate track package figured out, I think they can really make a concerted effort to make a push for a championship out of this chase.
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I think both of those drivers are still very much in the hunt.
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And the reason I say that is we're going to reset these points.
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After Daytona, the top 16 will get reset.
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The distance from first to sixteenth is only 100 points.
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Ryan Blaney's currently sitting in second, and Hamlin has a pretty big points lead over him.
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And that'll get reset to what 25-ish points.
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Yeah.
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That's so doable.
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If someone gets hot at the right time and they go through these next 10 races after Daytona, it's not out of the realm of possibility that he could pass Hamlin and Toyota could be on the outside looking in after they've had such a dominant start to the year.
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I agree with you.
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I think that there's something to that.
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And I think that you look at the races that are left for the chase and who's won those.
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I mean, Ford has a really solid chance of being able to make this happen.
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And that's funny because at the first of the season, we were talking about the fact the regular season was already won by Tyler Reddick.
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Yeah, we crowned him the champion.
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And it seems like it was last year that Tyler Redick was the hottest property in the world.
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He won five of the first ten races.
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He won the first three races.
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And all of this praise.
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And then it's just like overnight he lost the mojo.
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And he sp spun out what on lap three?
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Or was it the first lap?
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When they came out on the wet weather tires.
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And I th I felt like that almost condemned him for the rest of the race.
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We don't know how good he was.
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And he was terrible in practice.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely atrocious.
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And then he wins the poll, and you're that's just like a microcosm for his entire season.
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Yeah.
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So he goes and wins the poll, and Andrew Curlin talked to him and said, You were 31st in practice, and he goes, I didn't even know the car had that in it.
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And so then he goes out on the poll and spins out.
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And it's just like a comedy of errors.
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It's it's like watching one of your favorite rom-com movies, and everything bad that happens to the one guy just continues to happen.
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It continues to happen.
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And and I fully agree, Doug.
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I think that the mojo is just off over there.
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I know they've had a meeting with Michael Jordan where he came in and talked to each one of the teams, trying to pump them up and get some energy behind them.
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And I just don't know if they're going to have enough to make a push here late in the season.
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I I think that they don't really have a shot as far as the momentum goes.
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I think that they just need that reset button, right?
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And the chase resetting clearing the points might be that moment that there is that I'm gonna say the carrot dangling over there that you can attack and that you can get after.
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I think that there is the realm of possibilities that that can happen.
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I don't know that there's really anybody that you can completely shut out and say, There's no shot, there's no way that you're gonna be able to tackle this and you're going to take the championship.
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Granted, there are the three that you assume will be the ones contending, but it's kind of anybody's game once you get there.
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And now I feel like it's a Ryan Blaney game.
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He's definitely maybe I'm not gonna forget Ty Gibbs.
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Ty Gibbs still has fast race cars and is racing better than he's ever done before.
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I I have more faith in Ty Gibbs than I do right now in Tyler Reddick.
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Because Reddick's just going in the wrong direction.
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If you're a believer in momentum, his is all negative at the moment.
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Well, and another point where Ryan Blaney and Team Pinski are so good at these tracks that we've been at.
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Tyler Reddick historically not good at these tracks we have been at.
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And now we're gonna go back to Daytona, where he won earlier in the season.
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Then we'll go to Darlington, where he's always been very good.
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So we'll see if he can come back from this slump that he has been in.
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He's still top four in points.
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I think that there may just be too much of a mountain for him to climb as far as the mental aspect of this goes.
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But we'll all find out together.
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That's the beauty of what racing is.
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We have to run every single lap, and we're gonna find out if he can come back from this.
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But I do think to that, I mean, you look at the races that are left in the chase, Tyler's found success at a handful of those.
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Ryan's found success at a handful.
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You look at the guys that have won and you look at where they've won at, there is that probability that you're really gonna have a fun wild card of a gamble when we really get into the chase.
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Ryan's also been there done that.
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That means more than I think we give him credit for.
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One other thing, and David, we talked about this a lot on previous shows.
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We've heard so many people preach, oh, you've got to be in the top five to win the title.
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And I bought into that for a while, but I've seen a couple of things happen this year.
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This big surge by Joey Logano to come from outside the cut line to be ninth now in points.
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The plummet of Tyler Reddick that we've already talked about.
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I don't know that you have to be in the top five.
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I think this could go all the way down to the top ten getting into the chase having a legit shot.
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I mean, legitimately a hundred points from first to sixteenth.
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If you're in sixteenth and all of a sudden you turn it on and go through a five or six race stretch where you're just unbeatable is doable.
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I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility.
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You're mathematically still in it.
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I think it's anybody's game.
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I think if you're in that top 16, you have a legitimate shot to win the championship, and you just have to play your cards right and make sure that you're maximizing every single point that you can because we've seen it you don't have to get a bunch of wins to be able to be successful in this format.
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You have to be very, very consistent, and we've seen a number of people do that.
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Ty Gibbs is one of them.
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He's got two wins on the season, yes, but he runs very consistent week in and week out, and they're maximizing every single one of those points.
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I'm not quite as bullish as you are.
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I'll go to the top ten.
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I if you're if you're 11th through 16, there's a reason you're there.
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Yeah.
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You probably don't have the secret sauce to put you over the top to get uh to be a legit playoff player.
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Matt Colleg is scheduled to join us here and talk about his work with the NASCAR Foundation, and we may even get in a couple of questions about racing.
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Matt is a big giver.
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He and his team and his family work tenaciously to help benefit the NASCAR Foundations.
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And Matt, you guys have been doing this for a long time.
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And once again, you're coming to the plate to help people out.
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By the way, thanks for joining us on the show.
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Really appreciate it.
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You got it, man.
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It's uh, you know, it's Monday and uh excited to get the week started again.
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And um, you're right, and I love the way you say uh that we're big givers uh because uh we are.
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We we love that message.
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You know, I do so many things in business, you know, whether it's Leaf Filter or like any one of our 70 businesses, and you know, I'm I'm a really I'm a big real estate developer, and you know, I I love this NASCAR.
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As you guys see and know, like we're getting way big in this uh in this uh NASCAR, this NASCAR thing, as I call it, uh, you know, in the truck series and uh the Urale series and the and the cup series, and and so we're just having fun growing that.
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But, you know, a giant part of what we do, you know, you guys know I own uh, you know, part of the Cleveland Guardians.
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Uh so we play baseball and we do all that stuff.
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But a big thing that we do in the community, uh uh especially up here in Northeast Ohio, but really uh what we get involved with is the the uh NASCAR Foundation and and what the NASCAR Foundation does, you know.
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So, you know, we're trying to do everything we can, which is really hard uh on the track, but uh what we can do and what we can give off the track is uh is really a big focus of what we do at the Cali Companies and with all of our stuff and all of our philanthropy.
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So it's really cool that you say like that we're we're we're big givers, and you know that makes me feel good, that makes our company feel good, that makes my wife feel good, that makes my daughter feel good, and uh it's it's what we do.
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Matt, celebrating 20 years of the NASCAR Foundation, which you mentioned, you're headed to New York City for the honors gala.
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You and your wife, Lisa, are gonna be there as co-chairs.
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What makes this such an important night for you and the NASCAR Foundation?
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Well, it's cool that they do it.
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So this is the first year that we've been involved in that.
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I mean, we're uh, you know, it it's uh it's a giant gala in New York City.
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I know Kristen Chennewith uh is is gonna be there.
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She's she's one of the hosts.
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Uh Jamie Little, so it's Kristen and Jamie Little are gonna are gonna be the host.
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So I'm I'm excited.
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It's it's black tie.
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So we have to get, I mean, we uh I had to go to men's warehouse and rent a tux.
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Uh, you know, the the the girls have to go get uh ball gowns.
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And so it's it's uh it's a really big gala that's raising a ton of money, I mean, millions of dollars, you know, for these kids.
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So I I actually think it's a really cool thing uh that the the France family and the NASCAR foundation does, you know, for uh I don't know, the community and for kids and and I don't know, it's just a fun thing to get dressed up.
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I mean, how many times when's the last time you were on a tux?
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I mean you go to a wedding last weekend for Doug last weekend.
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For me, it's been a lot to go to a wedding.
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You were at a wedding last weekend in a tux?
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I was first time I've ever gone to a wedding wearing a tuxedo.
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I know we're getting off on a side street, but our general manager, Jerry Horn's daughter, got married and uh he made it a big deal, Matt.
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So Okay, right.
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So that's my point.
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It's just cool to to uh to to get dressed up, but it but at the end of the day, it's just to raise a bunch of money um, you know, for uh for kids and the impact that NASCAR I always talk honestly about uh you know the impact that NASCAR makes off the track.
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I mean it I mentioned before about like the the Cleveland Guardians, but and sports teams, sports leagues, you know, around around the country, but especially the NASCAR Foundation.
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I mean, we go to you know, throughout the year, and we're and we're a big um uh you know part of what the NASCAR Foundation does in 16 tracks around the around the country every um you know 16 times a year, you know, we give bikes away uh to kids.
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I mean, it's a really big deal at at these tracks.
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And the NASCAR foundation, and it doesn't get publicized, right?
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And so that's part of what, I mean, that's kind of why I'm on your show today, is to let everybody know how much the NASCAR foundation does, you know, for these kids.
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So when we go to um, you know, I know the biggest one is when we go to Daytona.
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Uh, I mean, I think last year we gave 200 bikes away, you know, to these kids.
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I mean, we bus in 200 kids that are um, you know, how do you say underprivileged kids that probably have never had a bike before?
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We give them shoes, we give them helmets, we give them um, you know, bicycles, and we just have an awesome fun day.
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It's actually a fun week that we give them messages, you know, certain drivers, certain owners, certain, you know, uh, you know, people from the public, you know, talk to these kids about uh nutrition and about health and and everything else.
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But anyway, it's it's uh it's really cool to be a part of.
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And so even as opposed to just talking about racing all the time, you know, we get to talk about these kids and how we help the community and how to uh you know make this country a better place to be.
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Matt, so you just talked about one of the major initiatives that you're a part of with the NASCAR Foundation and Speediatrics, but you've also got Speedy Bear, which is around National Teddy Bear Day, which is actually coming up in just a few weeks.
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Why is that foundation and Speedy Bear so important to you and the NASCAR Foundation?
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Well, I I think it's one of the cooler things.
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That's actually one of the cooler things I've ever been part of.
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I mean, this year, you know, usually go to over a hundred hospitals um and give away teddy bears.
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I mean, you know, there's national pizza day, there's national grilled cheese day, there's that, so there's a national teddy bear day every year.
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So the NASCAR Foundation over the last several years, and I think this is our this will be our sixth year being involved, uh, but what we do is have our drivers uh and and we go to hospitals all over the country.
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Um the last number I saw was 157 hospitals this year.
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So we'll give over 6,000 speedy bears, like little teddy here.
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I have one.
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Like one of these.
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Oh man.
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So cute.
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And and we go into hospitals, and you know, every kid, and I say this all the time like if you're a kid and you're in a hospital, well, if you're an adult in a hospital, but if you're a kid in a hospital, like you don't want to be there.
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There's no kid that wants to be in a hospital, whether it's because you're sick or whether you're injured, or you know, for for whatever reason.
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So if um so the NASCAR foundation uh tries to brighten their spirits.
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So when you walk into a room or when a driver walks in and they're in their their fire suit and they are a professional race car driver, and they bring in and they give you a teddy bear and sign an autograph or take a picture, um, it brightens their day.
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And so that's the whole point is to uh is to do that.
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So that's what we do.
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So again, over 150 hospitals this year, 6,000 teddy bears.
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I know we're we're donating.
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I I know people can donate.
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Uh, I'm not sure how it's at NASCARFoundation.org.
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I think you can give$25.
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I'm pretty sure that you can write a message to a kid that uh that will receive your teddy bear and a message just to brighten their spirits and brighten their day.
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So it's cool.
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We've we've done it in Akron.
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Actually, Nicole Krieger comes up uh every year.
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We have our University of Akron marching band that comes out and plays for the kids, and we have like a parade, and we have drivers come up and and they give uh bear, you know, these these speedy bears uh to the kids.
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So we're doing it in New York City this year.
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So we were just talking about the gala that we're having in New York City.
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So the day after, you know, we're going to Hasenfeld uh Children's Hospital in New York City, uh, you know, at New York University, um and uh New York City University or whatever it's called.
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Is it New York University?
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I don't even know what it is, but I know it's gonna be a really big deal.
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And so I'm really looking forward to it.
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And that's in what, two weeks?
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It's in two weeks.
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And then you also mentioned donations and you're matching donations up to$25,000 to put more bears into the hands of these sweet children who are battling things that none of us want to be battling.
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How special is that to be saying, you know what?
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Hey, we know the value and we're matching you to make the difference.
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Yeah, we're matching up to$25,000.
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So for people that donate, uh, yeah, it's feel like how great is that?
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It just feels it it feels good to do.
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It it just uh it just is.
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It's it's uh I'm blessed.
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Uh I'm blessed to have had businesses and uh and continue to be in business and you know, be part of NASCAR and be able to give these uh these awesome teddy bears to these kids.
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And it just is it's one of those really, really awesome, feel-good things uh that that we're able to do.
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So it's it's really good to be able to give one teddy bear, you know, to a kid.
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So I I have talked to to a lot of people, like I said, this is our sixth year being involved.
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And even at the track, I mean, people they honestly do stop me and say, hey, I donated a teddy bear.
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And when you can literally write a personalized message to a kid, you don't know who you're writing it to.
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You're just like, hey, you know, stay in the gate, like you know, get well soon.
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You're gonna be good.
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You got this, you know.
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Um, it it just it feels great.
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.720
Matt, one racing thing here, you guys tackled a new challenge this year.
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You brought Ram back into the truck series in a big way, four full-time teams and your all-star event.
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How was the challenge?
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Was it as hard as you imagined it might be, or where does that factor?
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We uh yeah, it's like way harder than we thought it would be.
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Um, I mean, for real, honestly, it's way harder than we thought it would be.
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I'm really proud of our uh of our team and actually how we've done, but it's it's really hard.
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.839
I mean, this is a really difficult sport.
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You've got a lot of teams that are trying really hard.
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You've got a lot of you've you've got a there's there's a lot of money that goes into it from, and I'm not talking about our team, but like other teams, and and it's a really competitive.
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I mean, NASCAR is a really competitive sport, and you've got a lot of people that are that are really passionate about it.
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It's at the highest level.
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So um, but we came at it saying five, you know, you don't start when we came in, when colleg racing came in, you guys, like I don't know, 11 years ago, we had one car in the you know, in the O'Reilly series, one.
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And that was really hard.
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I mean, we were really struggling to even qualify or be, you know, 25th.
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And, you know, and then you start to run the top 20 or try to get 15th or 10th, you know, and then you add another, we added another car, and then another car, and then we went to the cup series.
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And but we just decided, like, hey, and I I've known this in business, like sometimes you just have to start.
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And so that was our that was our plan this year, even with Ram um and Stellantis coming in.
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It's like, let's just go.
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Sometimes you just have to rip the band-aid off and just go.
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So it's like, I don't know, five teams.
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We didn't decide to do this until I don't know, late summer last last summer.
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And like we we just went.
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So we're figuring it out.
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And uh, but yeah, it's it's been uh it's been hard.
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It's been super fun, and um, and we are we're actually having a blast.
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Our drivers are it's very, very, very, very frustrating, you know, to not uh I don't know, compete for a win.
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Um like I said, we came in 10, 11 years ago.
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We've won 29 trophies, we've won 27 O'Reilly races, we won two cup races, and uh, you know, so to not be in the story and not be upfront and competing for wins is uh is really tough on colleg racing and all the men and women at college racing.
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But we know what's ahead.
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We we know how to do it uh because we've done it before.
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We can see exactly what we've got going on, and uh we we are gonna be a force to be reckoned with here in the next uh, if not next year, uh definitely in the next coming years.
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It's just how it's how we roll.
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We provide our audience with the news and insightful conversations with the newsmakers from Grassroots Racing.
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:39.280
How did that help you this time to take this victory from a grassroots perspective?
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.159
I definitely felt like Morza was a lot harder than the other one.
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:44.239
That's PRN at the track.
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:10.320
Yeah, it's been tough.
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:13.840
That that free agency program with them too has been awesome.
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.239
I think Tony Stewart in a car, you've seen Ryan Newman.
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:19.039
We'll see Regan Smith drive it two times this year.
00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.559
So Elliot Sadler is in it.
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:25.840
Yeah, it that that to me, that program just makes that whole situation a little bit better.
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:28.800
Because you're seeing these all-star drivers get in these trucks and run these races.
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:30.079
Clint Boyer was in there too.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:37.920
It just it's fun and it it pumps a new form of energy into uh the truck race, which I mean the truck races don't need any extra energy.
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:39.760
Those are so much fun to watch.
00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:45.199
But then you throw this in with a program that everybody was kind of indifferent, didn't know how it was gonna go, it hasn't gone the best.
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:48.639
We're gonna throw some celebrities in there to try to kind of keep the energy rolling.
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:49.679
It will get better.
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Yes.
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It will.
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It will get better.
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I didn't it it's done about what I thought it was gonna do.
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:55.039
Agreed.
00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:59.360
I mean the expectations were low, and they you know it it's done pretty well.
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.920
I think the expectations were low and they met them.
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Yes.
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That didn't sound right.
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No, it didn't.
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No, it was terrible.
00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:07.280
I'm sorry I said that.
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:14.239
Um speaking of expectations, theirs were high for these four drivers.
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Kyle Larson, William Byron, Christopher Bell, Ross Casting, all came into the year thinking this could be the year.
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This could be the title.
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Samantha's we're sitting here, which one of these is the biggest surprise that they've not gotten a double?
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I would go with Christopher Bell.
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:43.519
Um, I think that there's so much success that he's found every season, and then this season it's fallen a little flat.
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:50.320
I think it was 32 races without a win, which feels very uncharacteristic for Christopher Bell.
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:52.639
Um he's been fun to watch.
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:53.599
He's raced well.
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:58.800
I mean, he has seven second place finishes, 13 top tens, four stage wins.
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So he's doing the right things.
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It's just not coming together in one moment.
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So I think he's right there on that cusp.
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:06.400
What are you thinking, David?
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.679
For me, I I think that the biggest question mark is Kyle Larson.
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:16.559
49 race, winless streak, last year's champion, hasn't won since Kansas on May 11th of 2025.
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.880
There's just something going on with him, and I can't really put my finger on it.
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:32.400
He was decent at New Hampshire, the best Hendrick carr in the field by far, and he led a ton of laps at Bristol, but it just has not materialized into a race win yet.
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:48.480
I know that he's locked in already in the seventh position in points for the chase, but there's just something a little bit off with that team, and and I don't know what it is, but they just don't seem right in how I think Kyle Larson should be running at this point in the season.
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:51.440
And so I've still got a lot of question marks for that team.
00:40:51.519 --> 00:41:01.519
I know that Hendrick and Chevy has that new body, and and going to Daytona, we don't know how that will affect them, and we've got changes to that race anyway coming up Saturday.
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:07.119
So we don't know all of the things that will play into that, but I just don't know where to go from here.
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:18.239
If I'm a Kyle Larson fan or just even at Hendrick, what what do we do at this point to to right the ship and become more competitive to where we're in the mix when people are talking about a championship run?
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:25.039
Well, kind of rounding out this equation here, William Byron, who it wasn't all that long ago, won the first two races of a season.
00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:30.559
Yeah, one back-to-back Daytona 500s, and now he's an afterthought.
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:33.440
Has he even put together back-to-back top tens this year?
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:34.639
I don't think so.
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:42.000
But I felt like that the race at New Hampshire sort of exemplified it was a representation of his entire season.
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:44.880
The wheels literally fell off.
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.639
He had a tire fall off the car and his day is done.
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:50.320
And he was okay up until then.
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:52.000
He wasn't going to win.
00:41:52.480 --> 00:42:00.159
But the fall-off of Chevrolet and Hendrick is something that I think when we write the book on this season is going to be its own chapter.
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.599
They've been a non-factor for the most part, aside from a couple of wins from Chase Elliott.
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.239
I mean, and I think earlier we were talking about Toyota.
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:10.000
The beginning of the season was all about Toyota.
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.880
Now he's kind of transitioned and we're talking about like Ford's coming in.
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.719
They're going to make they're making a splash.
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.239
It hasn't really been any kind of a story for Chevy.
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:20.559
It hasn't really been, it's been a non-starter.
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:24.480
To me, the biggest thing is Spire has overperformed.
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:29.199
They've got two race wins this year from Daniel Suarez and Carson Hosovar.
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.199
Hendrick underperformed.
00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:34.880
If you're going to grade them on their own rubric, they're not where they should be right now.
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:36.559
And I think Kyle Petty has said it best.
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:38.559
I've heard him on a couple of different programs.
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:49.519
They're trying to take what should be middle-of-the-pack cars, 10th, 11th, 12th place cars, drive them up to where they should be because they have the expectations that we should be running top five every week.
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:51.440
They just don't have the equipment right now.
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:55.440
You realize Track House has as many wins as Henry, right?
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:55.679
Yeah.
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:57.360
SVG's got a couple of roadboards.
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.840
And you know, that's a big chunk of what Chevy has done this year.
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.960
I'm not ready to flush them entirely because we've seen this resurgence of Ford.
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:18.480
I don't know if that continues when we get back around to the mile and a half racetrack, when we come back to Charlotte or go down to Darlington, or some of these other tracks that may even out a little bit.
00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:26.000
But man, I'm I'm still surprised though that we're here where we are, and the three big drivers that we talked about don't have double's this year.
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:26.880
That's shocking.
00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.840
It's just absolutely flabbergasting me.
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.079
And to me, I think the only anomaly and Samantha, you mentioned him, Christopher Bell.
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:39.280
Average start of 14.2, average finish of 14.3, seven runner-ups.
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:40.159
He's in the mix.
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:40.960
He is in the mix.
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:43.199
He just doesn't have the wins.
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.039
They're not able to put it all together in one race.
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:52.880
It's like you see uh see it in this one, you're like, Oh, okay, cool, we're getting it, but it they can't pull it all together for one one race.
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:56.320
Well, our studios are located here at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:59.679
Seabell should have won the Coke six hundred this year.
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:05.360
But him and Danny Hamlin get into a catfight with each other, and that lets Daniel Suarez go off and win.
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:10.159
Yeah, and then he pushes a uh a car to the wind with Blaney at Echo Park.
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:10.639
Mm-hmm.
00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:14.880
And it's just, you know, eventually it's going to start wearing on you.
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:18.800
But I think that they're in a better position than the other drivers on this list.
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:22.079
I know you mentioned Larson and Byron and Chastain.
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:28.480
I think out of those four, Bell has the better shot of making something happen than the other four do.
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:33.280
By the way, Chastain was officially eliminated from the chase at New Hampshire.
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:33.519
Yeah.
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:35.440
And that I I find that odd.
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:37.840
I always I thought his star was ascending.
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:38.239
Yes.
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:40.320
And this year it's been nightmares for it.
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:42.159
They just can't get out of their own way.
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:45.599
I think they're fighting too many struggles over there at Track House with their equipment.
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:53.760
And unless you're Shane Van Gisbergen and you're on a road course, I just don't think that those cars have what it takes to win at a intermediate tracker at a short track.
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.519
And he may not have a driver in his current employee in two years.
00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:58.000
Yeah.
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:01.119
We already know Zilich is going.
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.800
Castain has one more year.
00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:04.000
He could bail.
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:06.880
And SVG is a pretty valuable property.
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:10.320
Somebody's looking at him saying, okay, we could get him.
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:12.320
That probably gives us three wins a year.
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:12.800
Yeah.
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.679
I don't know what that track house team's gonna look like in another year.
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Chase Elliott on his relationship with Napa.
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His fit for your 13th year together.
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:10.639
They've been a great partner.
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:23.280
I think as time goes on, those relationships get better if you're lucky enough to have a partner for that length of time because they get to know you, you get to know them, we figure out what works for each other, and we can really start pulling the rope in the same direction.
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:27.440
And I think that that's where our relationship has really thrived the most.
00:47:57.039 --> 00:47:57.360
Is that right?
00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:58.400
Is that a common thing?
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:00.480
It's not Marcom anymore, just comms.
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:01.519
We're we're comms.
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:04.320
Alright, you just dropped a MARCOM.
00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:06.960
You can't just do that and not say what that is.
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:08.639
Marketing and communications?
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:09.199
Yeah.
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:13.920
I mean, we work with the marketing department, but we are two separate entities.
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:15.760
So we're just we're the comms team.
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:16.559
There you go.
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:20.400
So that you're almost speaking in emoji when you say that.
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:21.039
I feel like.
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:24.800
Yeah, you're just the abbreviation language alphabet suit for everybody.
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:39.920
It is, but I think it's also funny if you started naming a handful of things that we hear in radio or you hear in TV that are just normal everyday conversations for us with directors and producers, and you send it to a normal average crowd, they'd be like, I'm sorry, what are you asking me about?
00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:43.199
You worked you worked in television as a sports anchor.
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:43.840
Yes, sir.
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:48.960
I worked in Lubbock, Texas, Roanoke, Virginia, South in Indiana, and freelance a little bit in Houston.
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:50.639
Intrepid traveler, yeah.
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:54.320
You gotta move around so you can move up.
00:48:54.800 --> 00:49:02.960
Well, you've probably been here then at Speedway Motorsports as long as you stayed anywhere else because you're relatively young and to do all those other things you did.
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:05.360
You didn't plant a lot of roots.
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:11.360
No, I moved every two years in T V because my contract was two years, and that was really the only way you could move up.
00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:14.239
And I've been here four years, it'll be five years in March.
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:18.639
This is the longest I've ever lived anywhere outside of college and growing up in Houston.
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:20.239
Which is kind of wild to say.
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.480
Then I'm like, I've we're we're here.
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.719
We've planted roots and I've been here for four years.
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:26.320
And I've moved every two months.
00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:32.079
What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen put into a television contract?
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:38.400
Um, I wasn't allowed to wear the same outfit within two months on it.
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:39.360
Oh wow.
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:42.079
Did you have to furnish your own wardrobe or did they do that?
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:42.480
I did.
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.079
I had to furnish my own wardrobe.
00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:51.760
So I rented my clothes and I still still do rent the runways, like getting a shipment every two like every two weeks in the month.
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.639
But I yeah, because you weren't allowed to wear the same clothes.
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.320
Doug, we'd be in trouble, man.
00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:59.360
I'm over here wearing PRN shirt almost every day.
00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:00.320
The shirt.
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:01.199
The shirt.
00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:03.840
But it was it was wild.
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:04.639
That was the weirdest thing.
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:06.320
Because I was like, I'm sorry, how?
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:08.000
And I'm like, you just gotta figure it out.
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:09.519
We just don't want you to wear the same thing.
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:11.199
Every two months, huh?
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:12.719
That's a big rotation.
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:14.719
It yeah, that's why I rented clothes.
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:16.000
I couldn't afford that lifestyle.
00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:17.840
You couldn't have had a closet that no.
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:18.239
All right.
00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:19.440
All right, let's do this now.
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:24.559
It's time for another edition of Green Flag, Black Flag.
00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:25.360
Alrighty.
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.039
Show that has excellence in broadcasting written all over.
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:30.239
A word, right?
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:31.840
Award, something.
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:32.559
I don't know.
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:35.039
Actually, our standards are what what is it?
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:36.320
Our goals are low when we meet.
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.039
Expectations are low.
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:40.559
All right, here we go.
00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:41.440
I got some statements.
00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:42.159
I'll read them.
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.599
The panel will mull them over if they agree with said statement.
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It gets a green flag.
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If they disagree, black flag.
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Pretty simple.
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Here we go.
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:53.519
Let's go with uh Samantha first.
00:50:54.239 --> 00:51:01.199
Christopher Bell will win the championship with one or fewer wins this season.
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:03.360
Uh, green flag.
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.119
I think he can do it.
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:08.480
We've just talked about he can pull it together and make it happen.
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:10.000
I think he's got all the pieces.
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:13.920
He's just got to put it into one race, and I think he can take the checkered flag.
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:15.199
All right, Doug Rice, what do you think?
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.239
Uh black flag.
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:22.239
I'm not going to speak of the person that will win the championship for fear that we'll curse them.
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:23.679
Uh every year.
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:25.119
How about David Style?
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:26.159
I think it's possible.
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:36.880
I think he could go on a Matt Kenseth 2003 type run where Matt had 11 top fives, 25 top tens, and only led like 354 laps.
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:37.440
You know what?
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:39.360
Bell's already led 539.
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:40.239
It's it's doable.
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I say, I say do it.
00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:42.400
Small victories.
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:44.559
All right, Doug Rice, we go to you on this one.
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.039
NASCAR should also race on the streets of Washington, D.C.
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:53.679
If for no other reason, it would be refreshing to see something moving fast there.
00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:57.119
Okay, I was not expecting that.
00:51:57.360 --> 00:51:58.800
I was not expecting that.
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.920
Uh a red, white, and blue flag for that.
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:02.400
Sure.
00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:07.760
I I peeked over at the IndyCar race just to look at the background.
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.519
I thought it was exceptionally cool.
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Yeah.
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I'd love styles.
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Green flag.
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Anything that we can do to help celebrate our nation and add a little bit more patriotism.
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I'm for it.
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Yeah.
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Definitely.
00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:19.840
Definitely green flag.
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:22.960
I watched the IROC races and they were so much fun.
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:25.199
I was like, this is this is exciting.
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:29.039
A lot of people tuned in, a lot of different eyeballs can help spread the word of the sport.
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:30.000
All about it.
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.320
All right, uh, let's go to David here.
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:38.239
Your 2026 champ will be someone you don't expect.
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:41.840
Of course, you've already said it's gonna be I'm gonna say black flag.
00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:46.480
I think it'll be someone that is in the top four or five that we're talking about.
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:49.199
I think it'll be the regular cast of drivers that we have.
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:54.960
I don't think we'll see an unexpected driver, even though I am going against my logic that I said earlier in the show.
00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:57.679
Uh I believe it'll be our normal cast of characters.
00:52:57.920 --> 00:52:58.880
All right, Samantha.
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:00.239
I'm gonna say green flag.
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:05.519
I think that we've talked about so many different drivers who are just missing little bits and pieces of things.
00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:07.199
And we also talked earlier.
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:17.280
One through ten is a shot, and I think right now people are basically locking it in on three different guys Blaney, and we've got Hamlin and Redick.
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:18.800
So I think that there's something there.
00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:20.079
I think that anybody can do it.
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:21.360
All right, Doug Rice.
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:24.800
The the champion is going to be someone you don't expect.
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:25.840
Oh no, no.
00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:27.920
We're gonna we're gonna expect this person.
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:29.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:31.199
That will not be named.
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Will not be named.
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:33.920
It's not Christopher Bell.
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It is not.
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:37.360
All right, Doug Rice.
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:38.559
All right, thanks a bunch.
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:40.880
Hey, we gotta take quick time out and come back.
00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:42.320
One last thing.
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How did Christopher Bell become Christopher Bell?
00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:48.159
It started as a fire within, a drive to be better, faster, sharper.
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Toyota saw that fire, kindled it, gave it resources to grow.
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:56.000
Hours in the simulator, weeks working with Toyota engineers, years of rigorous training.
00:53:56.239 --> 00:53:58.880
It didn't happen overnight, it definitely didn't happen alone.
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:00.880
But that fire now forges a legacy.
00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:03.360
That's how you inspire the next generation of racing.
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That's how Christopher Bell became Christopher Bell.
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These cars are about to fire it off in anger.
00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:04.400
He spins and collects a couple cars side by side.
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:07.920
Austin Centric has him at the line, and he will take the lead in a one.
00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:10.719
Here comes Shane Van Gisbergen on the bottom.
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:11.679
He's looking for second.
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:14.079
Prince Busher fired out of a candidate turkey.
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:16.239
He's running to the rear cover to get it.
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:18.480
Oh, it's a multi-car accident.
00:55:18.639 --> 00:55:21.280
I'm gonna say 1520 cars, guys.
00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:23.760
That took out about two-thirds of the field.
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:26.559
We have the fight up here from between two crew guys.
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One of them is a baton, one is with Rack Metalky.
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:34.800
Lady bottom of the racetrack, Chester makes it three-won, and he likes the tickets topic of the back track.
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.360
He turned he wants to leave the turn three.
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.880
Loss Jenna Stan shopping at a mechanic from the sixth starting spot.
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He has already moved up to second.
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The battle mount return on the high side.
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:47.039
Kyle Larson, Riley Hurts challenging low.
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:50.239
Kyle Larson moves up to the top side, gonna lose a little bit of ground.
00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:11.360
All right, we've covered a lot of ground today.
00:56:11.440 --> 00:56:18.079
Once again, special thanks to Matt Colleg, and thanks to Matt for the great work that he does for the NASCAR Foundation.
00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:22.960
And he comes on here every year, and we even got him to talk a little bit of racing.
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Uh, let's do this now.
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One last thing.
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Because in broadcasting, you're not supposed to follow your own production on the air.
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:35.119
Yeah.
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Makes it sound like there's only one person on the show.
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:42.400
Since that's Samantha who voiced the one last thing, you get to give us your one last thing.
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My one last thing uh will be about someone very important to me.
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:48.719
So sports is not for everyone.
00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:52.079
If you work in sports, it's a very, very hard uh deal.
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:56.320
You're gone a lot, and I couldn't do this if it was not for my wife.
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We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary this past Sunday, which if you're doing the math, you're like, man, he looks really young to have been married 12 years.
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:05.679
We got married pretty young.
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Uh, but we've got two wonderful children together.
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She's a great mom.
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:12.880
She does a lot for me, and I couldn't have asked for a better partner in life.
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So um big shout out to my wife, Mallory.
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Love you, babe.
00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:16.480
That's wonderful.
00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:17.679
That's very heartfelt.
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It's amazing that they allowed you to get married in junior high.
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Yeah, you know, right?
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:25.039
We we fudged our dates on the birth certificate.
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So that's exactly what we did.
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Samantha?
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Um we are in the middle of wedding planning.
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We get married December 12th, uh, my fiance and I, and we did cake tasting over the weekend.
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What'd you land on?
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We haven't decided.
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Y'all, it is so hard.
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Do you know how big of a decision that is on what cake you're going to have?
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Well, you're not gonna eat much of it anyway, so I know.
00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:48.079
It's gotta be a good cake.
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Oh, no, I cake on.
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:52.079
No, I despise that.
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:53.760
Are you guys gonna save the topper and then?
00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:55.360
No, see, that's weird to me too.
00:57:55.599 --> 00:57:58.960
Like, who also has space in their freezer for a chunk of cake?
00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:01.760
Ours got lost, and I'm really glad it got lost.
00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:09.760
Uh ours didn't, and this was a long time ago, but we pulled it out on the one-year anniversary, and it's not advisable.
00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:12.400
Just yeah, if you want to keep the topper, that's great.
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If not, move on.
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:16.159
Funny, I'm gonna go in the wedding direction too.
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I attended the wedding of the general manager here at PRN's daughter, got married at the Grandfather Mountain this week in Linda, and it was one of the most cool weddings I've ever been to.
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It was very lavish without being over the top.
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It was beautiful, and it made it just made my wife and I feel really good to be a small part of something like that, and traditional vows, and it was it was just nice.
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And I can't say it any other way.
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And I'm not a big attending wedding person, except I'll be going to one in December when Samantha gets married.
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So looking forward to that.
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But it was just really cool.
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It was idyllic.
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It was up at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina.
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If you've ever been there or seen that, you know the natural beauty of that.
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So hey, we're ending up on a kind of happy note here.
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Who wins Daytona quickly?
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Oh, um, somebody that we don't expect.
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Okay, that's I'm gonna go with Joey Logano.
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Uh I'm gonna go with Hosevarn.
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How about that?
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Hey, all right, we're gonna take a break.
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By the way, keep it between the navigational beacons.
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Between the buoys.
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Five o'clock somewhere.
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Laney holds off his buddy Bubba to win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
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Diddy Hamlin clinches the regular season.
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Now here's the host of Fast Talk, Doug Rice.
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Welcome to the show.
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One race left in the 2026 regular season for the NASCAR Cup Series.
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And most of the big questions have been answered before we head to Daytona.
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One, that Ford is back somewhat.
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They've shown a lot of strength lately.
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And two, Denny Hamlin is the regular season champion.
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He will go in with a 25-point cushion.
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Let's hear how Ryan Blaney got it done at New Hampshire.
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White flag is out for Ryan Blaney.
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He'll cross the granite stripe, hoping to go back to back in New Hampshire.
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Has the lead he needs here on the final lap, going into turn number one.
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No lap traffic ahead for Ryan Blaney that he's going to have to navigate here in the next mile, looking for another win here at the magic mile.
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He is off of turn two and up to that stretch for the final time.
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Bubba Wallace hustled his way up around the lap car of Carson Hosebar.
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One final shot down into turns three and four.
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They're running similar lines, but Bubba doesn't have the momentum.
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Out of turn number four.
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Ryan Blaney's gonna go back to back in the Granite State.
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Blaney wins the Dollar Tree 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway by a half a second over Bubba Wallace.
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Nick Gilman with the call on the Performance Racing Network at the Magic Mile, where Ryan Blaney flashed again.
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Once again, I'm Doug Rice, joined today by David Styles and from Speedway Motorsports, Samantha Waddell.
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And David, it's apparent that Ryan Blaney loves it when we head to New Hampshire.
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I think those Penske cars just love it in general.
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They've been really strong on the short tracks all season long, and they're having a great resurgence through the summer here as we get ready to head into the last 10 races of the ray of the season in this marathon that will be the chase.
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We've got one left at Daytona.
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And oh yeah, they're pretty good at these speedway tracks, too.
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So I think this Penske push has been in full effect.
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I know Logano didn't have the day that he wanted, but Cindrick kind of middle of the pack, but Ryan Blaney, man, he's really, really good at this style of track.
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There was no stopping him.
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And I think that when we were talking about it earlier, you look at we earlier in the season it was all about Toyota and what Toyota was going to do.
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Ford's really come in there and really raiming through.
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I mean, what have they got?
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Four of the last six races, they have taken the checkered flag.
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So I think it really, when you look at that, of course, Blaney, he was unstoppable.
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There was really nothing that was going to come between him and that checkered flag.
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I felt there was a sense of inevitability when he got the lead late in the race.
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Yes.
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And I was actually texting with a couple of people that were in New Hampshire, and I said, I think it's done now.
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Bubba made it interesting, but I never really felt like he was going to get him, David.
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I mean, he led 115 laps, the last 74 laps of the race, and that's despite even having a little bit of a snafu there on Pitt Road.
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And his pick team has been in question marks all season long.
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But he said it in one of his post-race interviews when they give me a fast car and I have the ability to drive through traffic and put myself in a position to win races, we have to capitalize.
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And he's won two out of the last, what, six, seven races starting back in Echo Park.
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And to think that Ford had a 15-race winless streak up until that point when he won at Echo Park earlier in the summer, they're on a tear and he's locked up second place in the points now.
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I think that this could end up being a shootout between him and Denny Hamlin as we get ready to move into the later part of the season.
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And I think you would also be remiss though if you start talking looking at yesterday's race to not talk about Bubba Wallace and Josh Barry.
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I mean, the battle of the three of them was so much fun and it was dynamic, and it was something you wanted to cheer for all three of them to do well and to succeed because it was fun to watch each one of those scenarios and those schemes kind of play out.
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I felt like yesterday's race was entertaining, and I always want to walk away from a race going like, okay, I got something out of that.
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I had to be invested in this because you did have a story.
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It wasn't just a walk-off like we saw at Richmond and Iowa.
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I fully agree.
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And we also had wet weather at the beginning of this one where they put the wet weather tires on.
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And I think this Josh Barry story is just phenomenal.
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He doesn't have a ride next year.
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He's looking for a new home.
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Jesse Love will be piloting his car.
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But if you look at his stats, fourth straight top 10 for Josh Barry, he has more top 10s than a handful of drivers that are pretty competitive.
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Austin Cendrick, Michael McDowell, Ross Chastain.
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He's led more laps than Keslowski, Suarez, and Eric Jones.
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And that's a Pinsky allianced team.
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So we're kind of on this thread of the Fords are starting to matriculate their stats at the right time.
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Yeah, and I think that Josh was just fun to watch.
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It was cool to see that almost I'm gonna say the light come on in terms for like the fan base to see the driver that Josh Barry is.
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People have seen and know who he is, but to watch him drive and maneuver around the field was a lot of fun.
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I mean, in fact, he has he has led the most laps of any Wood Brothers car ever at New Hampshire with 73 laps.
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Wow.
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I mean, he was impressive.
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It was fun, it was exciting, and it gave you that extra energy oomph that you were looking for when you walk away from the race.
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And it's it's funny.
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This started at Indy, finished seventh there, he finished fourth at Iowa, eighth at Richmond, and then third at New Hampshire.
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As you said, a nice little four-race run.
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I don't know where this guy was at the first of the year, but after he got fired, it was almost like one, I think Ford has gotten better.
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And two, I think he's racing free now.
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There's no pressure to get into the thing.
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And ironically enough, I think his performance levels jump.
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He's building the resume.
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He's building a case for himself that, hey, I belong here.
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I belong in the cup series.
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I am good enough to run here.
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Someone needs to give me a shot.
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I know there are some open truck seats, there's some open O'Reilly seats, but if you're four consecutive top tens, you definitely belong in a ride in the cup series.
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And I think it's just a matter of time before somebody scoops him up.
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I know that we don't have the open availability right now for him to go somewhere, but I think that we'll see him in a car next year running something somewhere.
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I completely agree.
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He's too great and too exciting to watch to not see him land in a seat.
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He's got the resume built, he did the work.
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And like you mentioned, he's racing free.
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There's a handful of drivers who have gotten a contract renewed.
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They're driving like a totally different guy.
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Guys who have lost their seats driving like a totally different guy.
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So I think that there is something to that, the weight of the world on your shoulders.
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And now you're like, guess what?
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Let me just show you what I can do.
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Well, Matt Collins' gonna be on the show later.
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Let's see if Matt will give Josh a ride for next year when he rolls out the dog.
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Why not?
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It'd be good to see Dodge back in the Cup series.
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I'd be excited for that.
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Yeah, but for Josh, I'm happy.
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Always a very personable guy, easy to talk to, uh, has earned his stripes in this, but didn't show up with a bag of money to buy a ride.
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No.
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And and has done this, so good on him.
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We'll see.
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The future's not done for him.
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No.
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This is not a dead end.
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Maybe a it's a bump in the road, a pretty big one, but I don't think he's done.
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By the way, let's go ahead and hear from race winner Ryan Blaine.
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Well, the momentum that Team Penske has on their side is is great.
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You know, and Ford and um, you know, Team Penske in general have been on a pretty good care the last couple months, and it's been fun to work through it with everybody and try to get better and better.
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So just keep going.
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I'm a big believer in momentum and things like that.
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We just have to keep uh keep working at it, and hopefully we make a run at it.
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In our next segment, we're gonna break down the fact that he has make is making a big run for the championship.
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And what what is the the bet on Ryan Blandy right now?
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Bubba Wallace was the highest finishing Toyota at New Hampshire.
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He finished second.
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Fourth went to Christopher Bell.
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Ty Gibbs was sixth.
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Seventh, Denny Hamlin, and Tyler Redick was eighth.
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And those were your top ten finishing Toyota drivers at New Hampshire, and uh what turned out to be a really competitive and fun race.
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We'll take a break, come right back, talk a little bit more about race winner Ryan Blaney.
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It's time for a PRN pit stop.
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Today we're getting to know Nick Yeoman.
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Let's trick 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 Tour's Light No.
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9 hat on.
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It's like much larger than my head, and I have a large hat.
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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, it's Fast Talk here on the Performance Racing Network.
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Samantha Waddell, David Styles, I'm Doug Rice.
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Let's go ahead and take a deep dive here on Ryan Blaney.
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For the first half of the season, the Fords were not to be seen.
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It's been an all-Toyota show, and it feels like and it looks like genuinely, David, at least the blue oval has eroded away a little bit of the dominance of Toyota, led by Ryan Blaney, of course.
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I think that the set of tracks that we've been at over the last number of weeks have been really, really good for Ford.
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Ford has been good on the short tracks.
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We've seen Joey Logano move from 20th to 9th in points.
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Ryan Blaney also with two wins in this section, and they're just they've got all this momentum going forward.
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And this is what I fully believe.
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I believe there's a Pinsky push after May is over, after the ND500.
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I know that that's not a thing that you can quantify, but they really know how to capitalize in these moments where we need to be good and we need to make sure that our program is on track.
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And if they get their intermediate track package figured out, I think they can really make a concerted effort to make a push for a championship out of this chase.
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I think both of those drivers are still very much in the hunt.
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And the reason I say that is we're going to reset these points.
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After Daytona, the top 16 will get reset.
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The distance from first to sixteenth is only 100 points.
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Ryan Blaney's currently sitting in second, and Hamlin has a pretty big points lead over him.
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And that'll get reset to what 25-ish points.
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Yeah.
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That's so doable.
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If someone gets hot at the right time and they go through these next 10 races after Daytona, it's not out of the realm of possibility that he could pass Hamlin and Toyota could be on the outside looking in after they've had such a dominant start to the year.
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I agree with you.
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I think that there's something to that.
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And I think that you look at the races that are left for the chase and who's won those.
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I mean, Ford has a really solid chance of being able to make this happen.
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And that's funny because at the first of the season, we were talking about the fact the regular season was already won by Tyler Reddick.
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Yeah, we crowned him the champion.
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And it seems like it was last year that Tyler Redick was the hottest property in the world.
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He won five of the first ten races.
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He won the first three races.
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And all of this praise.
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And then it's just like overnight he lost the mojo.
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And he sp spun out what on lap three?
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Or was it the first lap?
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When they came out on the wet weather tires.
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And I th I felt like that almost condemned him for the rest of the race.
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We don't know how good he was.
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And he was terrible in practice.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely atrocious.
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And then he wins the poll, and you're that's just like a microcosm for his entire season.
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Yeah.
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So he goes and wins the poll, and Andrew Curlin talked to him and said, You were 31st in practice, and he goes, I didn't even know the car had that in it.
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And so then he goes out on the poll and spins out.
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And it's just like a comedy of errors.
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It's it's like watching one of your favorite rom-com movies, and everything bad that happens to the one guy just continues to happen.
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It continues to happen.
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And and I fully agree, Doug.
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I think that the mojo is just off over there.
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I know they've had a meeting with Michael Jordan where he came in and talked to each one of the teams, trying to pump them up and get some energy behind them.
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And I just don't know if they're going to have enough to make a push here late in the season.
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I I think that they don't really have a shot as far as the momentum goes.
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I think that they just need that reset button, right?
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And the chase resetting clearing the points might be that moment that there is that I'm gonna say the carrot dangling over there that you can attack and that you can get after.
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I think that there is the realm of possibilities that that can happen.
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I don't know that there's really anybody that you can completely shut out and say, There's no shot, there's no way that you're gonna be able to tackle this and you're going to take the championship.
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Granted, there are the three that you assume will be the ones contending, but it's kind of anybody's game once you get there.
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And now I feel like it's a Ryan Blaney game.
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He's definitely maybe I'm not gonna forget Ty Gibbs.
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Ty Gibbs still has fast race cars and is racing better than he's ever done before.
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I I have more faith in Ty Gibbs than I do right now in Tyler Reddick.
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Because Reddick's just going in the wrong direction.
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If you're a believer in momentum, his is all negative at the moment.
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Well, and another point where Ryan Blaney and Team Pinski are so good at these tracks that we've been at.
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Tyler Reddick historically not good at these tracks we have been at.
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And now we're gonna go back to Daytona, where he won earlier in the season.
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Then we'll go to Darlington, where he's always been very good.
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So we'll see if he can come back from this slump that he has been in.
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He's still top four in points.
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I think that there may just be too much of a mountain for him to climb as far as the mental aspect of this goes.
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But we'll all find out together.
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That's the beauty of what racing is.
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We have to run every single lap, and we're gonna find out if he can come back from this.
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But I do think to that, I mean, you look at the races that are left in the chase, Tyler's found success at a handful of those.
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Ryan's found success at a handful.
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You look at the guys that have won and you look at where they've won at, there is that probability that you're really gonna have a fun wild card of a gamble when we really get into the chase.
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Ryan's also been there done that.
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That means more than I think we give him credit for.
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One other thing, and David, we talked about this a lot on previous shows.
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We've heard so many people preach, oh, you've got to be in the top five to win the title.
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And I bought into that for a while, but I've seen a couple of things happen this year.
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This big surge by Joey Logano to come from outside the cut line to be ninth now in points.
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The plummet of Tyler Reddick that we've already talked about.
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I don't know that you have to be in the top five.
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I think this could go all the way down to the top ten getting into the chase having a legit shot.
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I mean, legitimately a hundred points from first to sixteenth.
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If you're in sixteenth and all of a sudden you turn it on and go through a five or six race stretch where you're just unbeatable is doable.
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I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility.
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You're mathematically still in it.
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I think it's anybody's game.
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I think if you're in that top 16, you have a legitimate shot to win the championship, and you just have to play your cards right and make sure that you're maximizing every single point that you can because we've seen it you don't have to get a bunch of wins to be able to be successful in this format.
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You have to be very, very consistent, and we've seen a number of people do that.
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Ty Gibbs is one of them.
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He's got two wins on the season, yes, but he runs very consistent week in and week out, and they're maximizing every single one of those points.
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I'm not quite as bullish as you are.
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I'll go to the top ten.
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I if you're if you're 11th through 16, there's a reason you're there.
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Yeah.
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You probably don't have the secret sauce to put you over the top to get uh to be a legit playoff player.
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Matt Colleg is scheduled to join us here and talk about his work with the NASCAR Foundation, and we may even get in a couple of questions about racing.
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It's uh, you know, it's Monday and uh excited to get the week started again.
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And um, you're right, and I love the way you say uh that we're big givers uh because uh we are.
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We we love that message.
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You know, I do so many things in business, you know, whether it's Leaf Filter or like any one of our 70 businesses, and you know, I'm I'm a really I'm a big real estate developer, and you know, I I love this NASCAR.
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As you guys see and know, like we're getting way big in this uh in this uh NASCAR, this NASCAR thing, as I call it, uh, you know, in the truck series and uh the Urale series and the and the cup series, and and so we're just having fun growing that.
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But, you know, a giant part of what we do, you know, you guys know I own uh, you know, part of the Cleveland Guardians.
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Uh so we play baseball and we do all that stuff.
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But a big thing that we do in the community, uh uh especially up here in Northeast Ohio, but really uh what we get involved with is the the uh NASCAR Foundation and and what the NASCAR Foundation does, you know.
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So, you know, we're trying to do everything we can, which is really hard uh on the track, but uh what we can do and what we can give off the track is uh is really a big focus of what we do at the Cali Companies and with all of our stuff and all of our philanthropy.
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So it's really cool that you say like that we're we're we're big givers, and you know that makes me feel good, that makes our company feel good, that makes my wife feel good, that makes my daughter feel good, and uh it's it's what we do.
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Matt, celebrating 20 years of the NASCAR Foundation, which you mentioned, you're headed to New York City for the honors gala.
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You and your wife, Lisa, are gonna be there as co-chairs.
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What makes this such an important night for you and the NASCAR Foundation?
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Well, it's cool that they do it.
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So this is the first year that we've been involved in that.
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I mean, we're uh, you know, it it's uh it's a giant gala in New York City.
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I know Kristen Chennewith uh is is gonna be there.
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She's she's one of the hosts.
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Uh Jamie Little, so it's Kristen and Jamie Little are gonna are gonna be the host.
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So I'm I'm excited.
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It's it's black tie.
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So we have to get, I mean, we uh I had to go to men's warehouse and rent a tux.
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Uh, you know, the the the girls have to go get uh ball gowns.
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And so it's it's uh it's a really big gala that's raising a ton of money, I mean, millions of dollars, you know, for these kids.
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So I I actually think it's a really cool thing uh that the the France family and the NASCAR foundation does, you know, for uh I don't know, the community and for kids and and I don't know, it's just a fun thing to get dressed up.
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I mean, how many times when's the last time you were on a tux?
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I mean you go to a wedding last weekend for Doug last weekend.
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For me, it's been a lot to go to a wedding.
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You were at a wedding last weekend in a tux?
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I was first time I've ever gone to a wedding wearing a tuxedo.
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I know we're getting off on a side street, but our general manager, Jerry Horn's daughter, got married and uh he made it a big deal, Matt.
00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:52.400
So Okay, right.
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So that's my point.
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It's just cool to to uh to to get dressed up, but it but at the end of the day, it's just to raise a bunch of money um, you know, for uh for kids and the impact that NASCAR I always talk honestly about uh you know the impact that NASCAR makes off the track.
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I mean it I mentioned before about like the the Cleveland Guardians, but and sports teams, sports leagues, you know, around around the country, but especially the NASCAR Foundation.
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I mean, we go to you know, throughout the year, and we're and we're a big um uh you know part of what the NASCAR Foundation does in 16 tracks around the around the country every um you know 16 times a year, you know, we give bikes away uh to kids.
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I mean, it's a really big deal at at these tracks.
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And the NASCAR foundation, and it doesn't get publicized, right?
00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:58.960
And so that's part of what, I mean, that's kind of why I'm on your show today, is to let everybody know how much the NASCAR foundation does, you know, for these kids.
00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:04.640
So when we go to um, you know, I know the biggest one is when we go to Daytona.
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Uh, I mean, I think last year we gave 200 bikes away, you know, to these kids.
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I mean, we bus in 200 kids that are um, you know, how do you say underprivileged kids that probably have never had a bike before?
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We give them shoes, we give them helmets, we give them um, you know, bicycles, and we just have an awesome fun day.
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It's actually a fun week that we give them messages, you know, certain drivers, certain owners, certain, you know, uh, you know, people from the public, you know, talk to these kids about uh nutrition and about health and and everything else.
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But anyway, it's it's uh it's really cool to be a part of.
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And so even as opposed to just talking about racing all the time, you know, we get to talk about these kids and how we help the community and how to uh you know make this country a better place to be.
00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:18.559
Matt, so you just talked about one of the major initiatives that you're a part of with the NASCAR Foundation and Speediatrics, but you've also got Speedy Bear, which is around National Teddy Bear Day, which is actually coming up in just a few weeks.
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Why is that foundation and Speedy Bear so important to you and the NASCAR Foundation?
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Well, I I think it's one of the cooler things.
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That's actually one of the cooler things I've ever been part of.
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I mean, this year, you know, usually go to over a hundred hospitals um and give away teddy bears.
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I mean, you know, there's national pizza day, there's national grilled cheese day, there's that, so there's a national teddy bear day every year.
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So the NASCAR Foundation over the last several years, and I think this is our this will be our sixth year being involved, uh, but what we do is have our drivers uh and and we go to hospitals all over the country.
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Um the last number I saw was 157 hospitals this year.
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So we'll give over 6,000 speedy bears, like little teddy here.
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I have one.
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Like one of these.
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Oh man.
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So cute.
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And and we go into hospitals, and you know, every kid, and I say this all the time like if you're a kid and you're in a hospital, well, if you're an adult in a hospital, but if you're a kid in a hospital, like you don't want to be there.
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There's no kid that wants to be in a hospital, whether it's because you're sick or whether you're injured, or you know, for for whatever reason.
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So if um so the NASCAR foundation uh tries to brighten their spirits.
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So when you walk into a room or when a driver walks in and they're in their their fire suit and they are a professional race car driver, and they bring in and they give you a teddy bear and sign an autograph or take a picture, um, it brightens their day.
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And so that's the whole point is to uh is to do that.
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So that's what we do.
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So again, over 150 hospitals this year, 6,000 teddy bears.
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I know we're we're donating.
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I I know people can donate.
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Uh, I'm not sure how it's at NASCARFoundation.org.
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I think you can give$25.
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I'm pretty sure that you can write a message to a kid that uh that will receive your teddy bear and a message just to brighten their spirits and brighten their day.
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So it's cool.
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We've we've done it in Akron.
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Actually, Nicole Krieger comes up uh every year.
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We have our University of Akron marching band that comes out and plays for the kids, and we have like a parade, and we have drivers come up and and they give uh bear, you know, these these speedy bears uh to the kids.
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.640
So we're doing it in New York City this year.
00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.240
So we were just talking about the gala that we're having in New York City.
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So the day after, you know, we're going to Hasenfeld uh Children's Hospital in New York City, uh, you know, at New York University, um and uh New York City University or whatever it's called.
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Is it New York University?
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I don't even know what it is, but I know it's gonna be a really big deal.
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And so I'm really looking forward to it.
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And that's in what, two weeks?
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It's in two weeks.
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And then you also mentioned donations and you're matching donations up to$25,000 to put more bears into the hands of these sweet children who are battling things that none of us want to be battling.
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How special is that to be saying, you know what?
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Hey, we know the value and we're matching you to make the difference.
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Yeah, we're matching up to$25,000.
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So for people that donate, uh, yeah, it's feel like how great is that?
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It just feels it it feels good to do.
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It it just uh it just is.
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It's it's uh I'm blessed.
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Uh I'm blessed to have had businesses and uh and continue to be in business and you know, be part of NASCAR and be able to give these uh these awesome teddy bears to these kids.
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And it just is it's one of those really, really awesome, feel-good things uh that that we're able to do.
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So it's it's really good to be able to give one teddy bear, you know, to a kid.
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So I I have talked to to a lot of people, like I said, this is our sixth year being involved.
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And even at the track, I mean, people they honestly do stop me and say, hey, I donated a teddy bear.
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And when you can literally write a personalized message to a kid, you don't know who you're writing it to.
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You're just like, hey, you know, stay in the gate, like you know, get well soon.
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You're gonna be good.
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You got this, you know.
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Um, it it just it feels great.
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.720
Matt, one racing thing here, you guys tackled a new challenge this year.
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You brought Ram back into the truck series in a big way, four full-time teams and your all-star event.
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How was the challenge?
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Was it as hard as you imagined it might be, or where does that factor?
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We uh yeah, it's like way harder than we thought it would be.
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Um, I mean, for real, honestly, it's way harder than we thought it would be.
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I'm really proud of our uh of our team and actually how we've done, but it's it's really hard.
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.839
I mean, this is a really difficult sport.
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You've got a lot of teams that are trying really hard.
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You've got a lot of you've you've got a there's there's a lot of money that goes into it from, and I'm not talking about our team, but like other teams, and and it's a really competitive.
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I mean, NASCAR is a really competitive sport, and you've got a lot of people that are that are really passionate about it.
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It's at the highest level.
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So um, but we came at it saying five, you know, you don't start when we came in, when colleg racing came in, you guys, like I don't know, 11 years ago, we had one car in the you know, in the O'Reilly series, one.
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And that was really hard.
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I mean, we were really struggling to even qualify or be, you know, 25th.
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And, you know, and then you start to run the top 20 or try to get 15th or 10th, you know, and then you add another, we added another car, and then another car, and then we went to the cup series.
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:40.720
And but we just decided, like, hey, and I I've known this in business, like sometimes you just have to start.
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And so that was our that was our plan this year, even with Ram um and Stellantis coming in.
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It's like, let's just go.
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Sometimes you just have to rip the band-aid off and just go.
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So it's like, I don't know, five teams.
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We didn't decide to do this until I don't know, late summer last last summer.
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And like we we just went.
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So we're figuring it out.
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And uh, but yeah, it's it's been uh it's been hard.
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It's been super fun, and um, and we are we're actually having a blast.
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Our drivers are it's very, very, very, very frustrating, you know, to not uh I don't know, compete for a win.
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.639
Um like I said, we came in 10, 11 years ago.
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We've won 29 trophies, we've won 27 O'Reilly races, we won two cup races, and uh, you know, so to not be in the story and not be upfront and competing for wins is uh is really tough on colleg racing and all the men and women at college racing.
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But we know what's ahead.
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.880
We we know how to do it uh because we've done it before.
00:34:54.960 --> 00:35:06.719
We can see exactly what we've got going on, and uh we we are gonna be a force to be reckoned with here in the next uh, if not next year, uh definitely in the next coming years.
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It's just how it's how we roll.
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Always enjoy chatting with you.
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:12.719
I get fired up just listening to you.
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:18.079
I you could be a motivational speaker if this whole business entrepreneurship thing doesn't work out.
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Thanks for what you're doing for the NASCAR Foundation and for people in general.
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We really appreciate you.
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:24.480
Thank you guys.
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Appreciate everything you guys do.
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Thank you.
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Team owner, Matt Colleg, and also humanitarian.
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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 at the track.
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Yeah, it's been tough.
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That that free agency program with them too has been awesome.
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.239
I think Tony Stewart in a car, you've seen Ryan Newman.
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:19.039
We'll see Regan Smith drive it two times this year.
00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.559
So Elliot Sadler is in it.
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Yeah, it that that to me, that program just makes that whole situation a little bit better.
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Because you're seeing these all-star drivers get in these trucks and run these races.
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:30.079
Clint Boyer was in there too.
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It just it's fun and it it pumps a new form of energy into uh the truck race, which I mean the truck races don't need any extra energy.
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:39.760
Those are so much fun to watch.
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But then you throw this in with a program that everybody was kind of indifferent, didn't know how it was gonna go, it hasn't gone the best.
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We're gonna throw some celebrities in there to try to kind of keep the energy rolling.
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It will get better.
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Yes.
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It will.
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It will get better.
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I didn't it it's done about what I thought it was gonna do.
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Agreed.
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I mean the expectations were low, and they you know it it's done pretty well.
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I think the expectations were low and they met them.
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Yes.
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That didn't sound right.
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No, it didn't.
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No, it was terrible.
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I'm sorry I said that.
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Um speaking of expectations, theirs were high for these four drivers.
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Kyle Larson, William Byron, Christopher Bell, Ross Casting, all came into the year thinking this could be the year.
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This could be the title.
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Samantha's we're sitting here, which one of these is the biggest surprise that they've not gotten a double?
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I would go with Christopher Bell.
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Um, I think that there's so much success that he's found every season, and then this season it's fallen a little flat.
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I think it was 32 races without a win, which feels very uncharacteristic for Christopher Bell.
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:52.639
Um he's been fun to watch.
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:53.599
He's raced well.
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I mean, he has seven second place finishes, 13 top tens, four stage wins.
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So he's doing the right things.
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It's just not coming together in one moment.
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So I think he's right there on that cusp.
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What are you thinking, David?
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For me, I I think that the biggest question mark is Kyle Larson.
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49 race, winless streak, last year's champion, hasn't won since Kansas on May 11th of 2025.
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There's just something going on with him, and I can't really put my finger on it.
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He was decent at New Hampshire, the best Hendrick carr in the field by far, and he led a ton of laps at Bristol, but it just has not materialized into a race win yet.
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:48.480
I know that he's locked in already in the seventh position in points for the chase, but there's just something a little bit off with that team, and and I don't know what it is, but they just don't seem right in how I think Kyle Larson should be running at this point in the season.
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:51.440
And so I've still got a lot of question marks for that team.
00:40:51.519 --> 00:41:01.519
I know that Hendrick and Chevy has that new body, and and going to Daytona, we don't know how that will affect them, and we've got changes to that race anyway coming up Saturday.
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:07.119
So we don't know all of the things that will play into that, but I just don't know where to go from here.
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:18.239
If I'm a Kyle Larson fan or just even at Hendrick, what what do we do at this point to to right the ship and become more competitive to where we're in the mix when people are talking about a championship run?
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:25.039
Well, kind of rounding out this equation here, William Byron, who it wasn't all that long ago, won the first two races of a season.
00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:30.559
Yeah, one back-to-back Daytona 500s, and now he's an afterthought.
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:33.440
Has he even put together back-to-back top tens this year?
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:34.639
I don't think so.
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:42.000
But I felt like that the race at New Hampshire sort of exemplified it was a representation of his entire season.
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:44.880
The wheels literally fell off.
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.639
He had a tire fall off the car and his day is done.
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:50.320
And he was okay up until then.
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:52.000
He wasn't going to win.
00:41:52.480 --> 00:42:00.159
But the fall-off of Chevrolet and Hendrick is something that I think when we write the book on this season is going to be its own chapter.
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.599
They've been a non-factor for the most part, aside from a couple of wins from Chase Elliott.
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.239
I mean, and I think earlier we were talking about Toyota.
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:10.000
The beginning of the season was all about Toyota.
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.880
Now he's kind of transitioned and we're talking about like Ford's coming in.
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.719
They're going to make they're making a splash.
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.239
It hasn't really been any kind of a story for Chevy.
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:20.559
It hasn't really been, it's been a non-starter.
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:24.480
To me, the biggest thing is Spire has overperformed.
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:29.199
They've got two race wins this year from Daniel Suarez and Carson Hosovar.
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.199
Hendrick underperformed.
00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:34.880
If you're going to grade them on their own rubric, they're not where they should be right now.
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:36.559
And I think Kyle Petty has said it best.
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:38.559
I've heard him on a couple of different programs.
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:49.519
They're trying to take what should be middle-of-the-pack cars, 10th, 11th, 12th place cars, drive them up to where they should be because they have the expectations that we should be running top five every week.
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:51.440
They just don't have the equipment right now.
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:55.440
You realize Track House has as many wins as Henry, right?
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:55.679
Yeah.
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:57.360
SVG's got a couple of roadboards.
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.840
And you know, that's a big chunk of what Chevy has done this year.
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.960
I'm not ready to flush them entirely because we've seen this resurgence of Ford.
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:18.480
I don't know if that continues when we get back around to the mile and a half racetrack, when we come back to Charlotte or go down to Darlington, or some of these other tracks that may even out a little bit.
00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:26.000
But man, I'm I'm still surprised though that we're here where we are, and the three big drivers that we talked about don't have double's this year.
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:26.880
That's shocking.
00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.840
It's just absolutely flabbergasting me.
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.079
And to me, I think the only anomaly and Samantha, you mentioned him, Christopher Bell.
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:39.280
Average start of 14.2, average finish of 14.3, seven runner-ups.
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:40.159
He's in the mix.
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:40.960
He is in the mix.
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:43.199
He just doesn't have the wins.
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.039
They're not able to put it all together in one race.
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:52.880
It's like you see uh see it in this one, you're like, Oh, okay, cool, we're getting it, but it they can't pull it all together for one one race.
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:56.320
Well, our studios are located here at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:59.679
Seabell should have won the Coke six hundred this year.
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:05.360
But him and Danny Hamlin get into a catfight with each other, and that lets Daniel Suarez go off and win.
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:10.159
Yeah, and then he pushes a uh a car to the wind with Blaney at Echo Park.
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:10.639
Mm-hmm.
00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:14.880
And it's just, you know, eventually it's going to start wearing on you.
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:18.800
But I think that they're in a better position than the other drivers on this list.
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:22.079
I know you mentioned Larson and Byron and Chastain.
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:28.480
I think out of those four, Bell has the better shot of making something happen than the other four do.
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:33.280
By the way, Chastain was officially eliminated from the chase at New Hampshire.
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:33.519
Yeah.
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:35.440
And that I I find that odd.
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:37.840
I always I thought his star was ascending.
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:38.239
Yes.
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:40.320
And this year it's been nightmares for it.
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:42.159
They just can't get out of their own way.
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:45.599
I think they're fighting too many struggles over there at Track House with their equipment.
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:53.760
And unless you're Shane Van Gisbergen and you're on a road course, I just don't think that those cars have what it takes to win at a intermediate tracker at a short track.
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.519
And he may not have a driver in his current employee in two years.
00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:58.000
Yeah.
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:01.119
We already know Zilich is going.
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.800
Castain has one more year.
00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:04.000
He could bail.
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:06.880
And SVG is a pretty valuable property.
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:10.320
Somebody's looking at him saying, okay, we could get him.
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:12.320
That probably gives us three wins a year.
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:12.800
Yeah.
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.679
I don't know what that track house team's gonna look like in another year.
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We'll take a time out, be right back.
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Chase Elliott on his relationship with Napa.
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His fit for your 13th year together.
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:10.639
They've been a great partner.
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:23.280
I think as time goes on, those relationships get better if you're lucky enough to have a partner for that length of time because they get to know you, you get to know them, we figure out what works for each other, and we can really start pulling the rope in the same direction.
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:27.440
And I think that that's where our relationship has really thrived the most.
00:47:57.039 --> 00:47:57.360
Is that right?
00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:58.400
Is that a common thing?
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:00.480
It's not Marcom anymore, just comms.
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:01.519
We're we're comms.
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:04.320
Alright, you just dropped a MARCOM.
00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:06.960
You can't just do that and not say what that is.
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:08.639
Marketing and communications?
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:09.199
Yeah.
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:13.920
I mean, we work with the marketing department, but we are two separate entities.
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:15.760
So we're just we're the comms team.
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:16.559
There you go.
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:20.400
So that you're almost speaking in emoji when you say that.
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:21.039
I feel like.
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:24.800
Yeah, you're just the abbreviation language alphabet suit for everybody.
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:39.920
It is, but I think it's also funny if you started naming a handful of things that we hear in radio or you hear in TV that are just normal everyday conversations for us with directors and producers, and you send it to a normal average crowd, they'd be like, I'm sorry, what are you asking me about?
00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:43.199
You worked you worked in television as a sports anchor.
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:43.840
Yes, sir.
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:48.960
I worked in Lubbock, Texas, Roanoke, Virginia, South in Indiana, and freelance a little bit in Houston.
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:50.639
Intrepid traveler, yeah.
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:54.320
You gotta move around so you can move up.
00:48:54.800 --> 00:49:02.960
Well, you've probably been here then at Speedway Motorsports as long as you stayed anywhere else because you're relatively young and to do all those other things you did.
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:05.360
You didn't plant a lot of roots.
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:11.360
No, I moved every two years in T V because my contract was two years, and that was really the only way you could move up.
00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:14.239
And I've been here four years, it'll be five years in March.
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:18.639
This is the longest I've ever lived anywhere outside of college and growing up in Houston.
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:20.239
Which is kind of wild to say.
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.480
Then I'm like, I've we're we're here.
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.719
We've planted roots and I've been here for four years.
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:26.320
And I've moved every two months.
00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:32.079
What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen put into a television contract?
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:38.400
Um, I wasn't allowed to wear the same outfit within two months on it.
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:39.360
Oh wow.
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:42.079
Did you have to furnish your own wardrobe or did they do that?
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:42.480
I did.
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.079
I had to furnish my own wardrobe.
00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:51.760
So I rented my clothes and I still still do rent the runways, like getting a shipment every two like every two weeks in the month.
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.639
But I yeah, because you weren't allowed to wear the same clothes.
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.320
Doug, we'd be in trouble, man.
00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:59.360
I'm over here wearing PRN shirt almost every day.
00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:00.320
The shirt.
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:01.199
The shirt.
00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:03.840
But it was it was wild.
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:04.639
That was the weirdest thing.
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:06.320
Because I was like, I'm sorry, how?
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:08.000
And I'm like, you just gotta figure it out.
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:09.519
We just don't want you to wear the same thing.
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:11.199
Every two months, huh?
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:12.719
That's a big rotation.
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:14.719
It yeah, that's why I rented clothes.
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:16.000
I couldn't afford that lifestyle.
00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:17.840
You couldn't have had a closet that no.
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:18.239
All right.
00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:19.440
All right, let's do this now.
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:24.559
It's time for another edition of Green Flag, Black Flag.
00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:25.360
Alrighty.
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.039
Show that has excellence in broadcasting written all over.
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:30.239
A word, right?
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:31.840
Award, something.
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:32.559
I don't know.
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:35.039
Actually, our standards are what what is it?
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:36.320
Our goals are low when we meet.
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.039
Expectations are low.
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:40.559
All right, here we go.
00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:41.440
I got some statements.
00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:42.159
I'll read them.
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.599
The panel will mull them over if they agree with said statement.
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:46.880
It gets a green flag.
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:49.119
If they disagree, black flag.
00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:50.880
Pretty simple.
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:51.519
Here we go.
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:53.519
Let's go with uh Samantha first.
00:50:54.239 --> 00:51:01.199
Christopher Bell will win the championship with one or fewer wins this season.
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:03.360
Uh, green flag.
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.119
I think he can do it.
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:08.480
We've just talked about he can pull it together and make it happen.
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:10.000
I think he's got all the pieces.
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:13.920
He's just got to put it into one race, and I think he can take the checkered flag.
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:15.199
All right, Doug Rice, what do you think?
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.239
Uh black flag.
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:22.239
I'm not going to speak of the person that will win the championship for fear that we'll curse them.
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:23.679
Uh every year.
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:25.119
How about David Style?
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:26.159
I think it's possible.
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:36.880
I think he could go on a Matt Kenseth 2003 type run where Matt had 11 top fives, 25 top tens, and only led like 354 laps.
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:37.440
You know what?
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:39.360
Bell's already led 539.
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:40.239
It's it's doable.
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:41.440
I say, I say do it.
00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:42.400
Small victories.
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:44.559
All right, Doug Rice, we go to you on this one.
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.039
NASCAR should also race on the streets of Washington, D.C.
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:53.679
If for no other reason, it would be refreshing to see something moving fast there.
00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:57.119
Okay, I was not expecting that.
00:51:57.360 --> 00:51:58.800
I was not expecting that.
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.920
Uh a red, white, and blue flag for that.
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:02.400
Sure.
00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:07.760
I I peeked over at the IndyCar race just to look at the background.
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.519
I thought it was exceptionally cool.
00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:09.920
Yeah.
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:11.119
I'd love styles.
00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:12.079
Green flag.
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:16.320
Anything that we can do to help celebrate our nation and add a little bit more patriotism.
00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:16.800
I'm for it.
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:17.039
Yeah.
00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:17.760
Definitely.
00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:19.840
Definitely green flag.
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:22.960
I watched the IROC races and they were so much fun.
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:25.199
I was like, this is this is exciting.
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:29.039
A lot of people tuned in, a lot of different eyeballs can help spread the word of the sport.
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:30.000
All about it.
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.320
All right, uh, let's go to David here.
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:38.239
Your 2026 champ will be someone you don't expect.
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:41.840
Of course, you've already said it's gonna be I'm gonna say black flag.
00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:46.480
I think it'll be someone that is in the top four or five that we're talking about.
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:49.199
I think it'll be the regular cast of drivers that we have.
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:54.960
I don't think we'll see an unexpected driver, even though I am going against my logic that I said earlier in the show.
00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:57.679
Uh I believe it'll be our normal cast of characters.
00:52:57.920 --> 00:52:58.880
All right, Samantha.
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:00.239
I'm gonna say green flag.
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:05.519
I think that we've talked about so many different drivers who are just missing little bits and pieces of things.
00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:07.199
And we also talked earlier.
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:17.280
One through ten is a shot, and I think right now people are basically locking it in on three different guys Blaney, and we've got Hamlin and Redick.
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:18.800
So I think that there's something there.
00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:20.079
I think that anybody can do it.
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:21.360
All right, Doug Rice.
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:24.800
The the champion is going to be someone you don't expect.
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:25.840
Oh no, no.
00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:27.920
We're gonna we're gonna expect this person.
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:29.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:31.199
That will not be named.
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:32.480
Will not be named.
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:33.920
It's not Christopher Bell.
00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:36.159
It is not.
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:37.360
All right, Doug Rice.
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:38.559
All right, thanks a bunch.
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:40.880
Hey, we gotta take quick time out and come back.
00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:42.320
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Hours in the simulator, weeks working with Toyota engineers, years of rigorous training.
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It didn't happen overnight, it definitely didn't happen alone.
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But that fire now forges a legacy.
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That's how you inspire the next generation of racing.
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I'm Bubba Wallace, and you're listening to Fast Talk on the Performance Racing Network.
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These cars are about to fire it off in anger.
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He spins and collects a couple cars side by side.
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Austin Centric has him at the line, and he will take the lead in a one.
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Here comes Shane Van Gisbergen on the bottom.
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He's looking for second.
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Prince Busher fired out of a candidate turkey.
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He's running to the rear cover to get it.
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Oh, it's a multi-car accident.
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I'm gonna say 1520 cars, guys.
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That took out about two-thirds of the field.
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We have the fight up here from between two crew guys.
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One of them is a baton, one is with Rack Metalky.
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Lady bottom of the racetrack, Chester makes it three-won, and he likes the tickets topic of the back track.
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He turned he wants to leave the turn three.
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Loss Jenna Stan shopping at a mechanic from the sixth starting spot.
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He has already moved up to second.
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The battle mount return on the high side.
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Kyle Larson, Riley Hurts challenging low.
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Kyle Larson moves up to the top side, gonna lose a little bit of ground.
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All right, we've covered a lot of ground today.
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Once again, special thanks to Matt Colleg, and thanks to Matt for the great work that he does for the NASCAR Foundation.
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And he comes on here every year, and we even got him to talk a little bit of racing.
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Uh, let's do this now.
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One last thing.
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Because in broadcasting, you're not supposed to follow your own production on the air.
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Yeah.
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Makes it sound like there's only one person on the show.
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Since that's Samantha who voiced the one last thing, you get to give us your one last thing.
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My one last thing uh will be about someone very important to me.
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So sports is not for everyone.
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If you work in sports, it's a very, very hard uh deal.
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You're gone a lot, and I couldn't do this if it was not for my wife.
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We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary this past Sunday, which if you're doing the math, you're like, man, he looks really young to have been married 12 years.
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We got married pretty young.
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Uh, but we've got two wonderful children together.
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She's a great mom.
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She does a lot for me, and I couldn't have asked for a better partner in life.
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So um big shout out to my wife, Mallory.
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Love you, babe.
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That's wonderful.
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That's very heartfelt.
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It's amazing that they allowed you to get married in junior high.
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Yeah, you know, right?
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We we fudged our dates on the birth certificate.
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So that's exactly what we did.
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Samantha?
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Um we are in the middle of wedding planning.
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We get married December 12th, uh, my fiance and I, and we did cake tasting over the weekend.
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What'd you land on?
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We haven't decided.
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Y'all, it is so hard.
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Do you know how big of a decision that is on what cake you're going to have?
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Well, you're not gonna eat much of it anyway, so I know.
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It's gotta be a good cake.
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Oh, no, I cake on.
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No, I despise that.
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Are you guys gonna save the topper and then?
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No, see, that's weird to me too.
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Like, who also has space in their freezer for a chunk of cake?
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Ours got lost, and I'm really glad it got lost.
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Uh ours didn't, and this was a long time ago, but we pulled it out on the one-year anniversary, and it's not advisable.
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Just yeah, if you want to keep the topper, that's great.
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If not, move on.
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Funny, I'm gonna go in the wedding direction too.
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I attended the wedding of the general manager here at PRN's daughter, got married at the Grandfather Mountain this week in Linda, and it was one of the most cool weddings I've ever been to.
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It was very lavish without being over the top.
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It was beautiful, and it made it just made my wife and I feel really good to be a small part of something like that, and traditional vows, and it was it was just nice.
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And I can't say it any other way.
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And I'm not a big attending wedding person, except I'll be going to one in December when Samantha gets married.
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So looking forward to that.
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But it was just really cool.
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It was idyllic.
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It was up at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina.
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If you've ever been there or seen that, you know the natural beauty of that.
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So hey, we're ending up on a kind of happy note here.
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Who wins Daytona quickly?
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Oh, um, somebody that we don't expect.
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Okay, that's I'm gonna go with Joey Logano.
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Uh I'm gonna go with Hosevarn.
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How about that?
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Hey, all right, we're gonna take a break.
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By the way, keep it between the navigational beacons.
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Between the buoys.
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Five o'clock somewhere.
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