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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
seven one. The freak Nascar man Christopher

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Bell calling in momentarily new report out, guys, the report out here top

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night. Answers are on the board. Germiest places in the office, bathroom,

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bathroom bump bump, bump, ump, bump, bump, ump,

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bump, up bump. Yes,
but number six, Danny, I will

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go with coffee maker. Yes.
Is that kitchen. That's count's kitchen.

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Mike board here, new report out
just this morning, nine jermist places,

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nine Germy spots in your office.
Number six gone, Mike door handle,

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Oh yes, number one answer,
all right, elevator button number, keyboard

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mouse. I think it's all okay. Computer's a computer. I don't know.

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Pass. That's two strikes. Chair
chair. I still want to go

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back to break room. I'm thinking
either that or let's go with water fountain,

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water cooler. Oh, yeah,
that's water cooler. Yes, correct,

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Number five sink. Technically that would
have been Danny wins because you missed

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yours sink. He just wanted you
to know that you lost, just now

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that you're a loser. That's what
he was doing. Sink with the all

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of your bathroom I think is what
they're going with here. But there's a

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there's a breakroom sink too, which
was weird to Secretary. Their hands in

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the breakroom sink, Secretary not one
of the germiest spots. Jesus Secretary's chair,

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No stepskin waves, microphone number three, desk, desk, desk number

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four, microwave, microwave, okay, coffee maker microwave. No, they're

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too different, these things that Kevin
doesn't have in his kitchen. I have

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a microwave, and I don't need
a coffee maker. When I make cold

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bruise that it will oppress. That
makes pretty good. What else is on

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the bathroom elevator? Buttons, vending
machines, and your phone? Your phone?

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I love impromptu family feud. Doesn't
like it anymore. It seems like

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he's really down on it. I
like it. But keyboard yes number two,

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Yeah, it's not up here.
It's not that he doesn't like it.

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It's just that winning kind of cultivates
a culture of positivity, and when

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you're on a losing streak like Mikey's
been on for god what seems like decades

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in life and games. I saw
here's a report just dropped nine boom.

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It's perfect fodder. Before our guest, who is calling on the hotline,

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JJ is talking to him, the
problem with your games, I feel like

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is I'm too smart and that's holding
me back. That's an indictment of you.

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That's holding me back in your games. You thinking that it's true.

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Look at JJ's talking NASCAR with Christopher
Bell. You know, Mike that the

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Auto Trader Echo Park Automotive four hundred
is not this weekend but next weekend for

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NASCAR's Triple Header weekend. Yes,
I did, Yes, I do.

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And that's gonna have to wait until
the Cookout four hundred and Martinsville is done

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this weekend and racing in both of
those things. And I'm predicting too.

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Victory is our next guest. He
is from Norman, Oklahoma. He's driving

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the number twenty Toyota for Joe Gibbs
racing right there in the NASCAR Cup Series.

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We have Christopher Bell joining us live
on ninety seven to won the freak.

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Hi, Christopher Bell, hey man, I like that prediction. I

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really like that prediction. Two in
a row, Dude, we got Phoenix.

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We could have got the last couple
too, But I feel like we're

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about to rattle off some checkered coming
up, and I know you feel the

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same way because you're riding a damn
rocket. We had second at Coda,

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six at Richmond, and life's got
to be pretty good. Man. This

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is looking like a championship season.
That's what I'm thinking, Chris. You

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it's been going good man. The
Coda Cota was so close, and then

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Richmond was tough to swallow as well, because we were right there, you

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know, in position, and I
sped on Pitt Road. But to come

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back and finish sixth was you know, it was like a bittersweet moment.

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Right after speeding. I thought for
sure that my day was gonna be a

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lot worse than six. So we
usually just kind of screw around and have

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fun on the show, but I
do have some NASCAR stuff, and you

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brought it up. Speeding on Pitt
Road always is a mystery to me the

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fan. I've seen it in multiple
disciplines. I don't remember. I was

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at the Indy five hundred a few
years ago and somebody cost themselves the whole

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race just by speeding on Pitt Road. It's such a penal thing. How

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hard is it for you? I
mean, I know there's a line or

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a barrier where you know you need
to be down to a certain speed.

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Are you just slamming on the brakes
if you're one mile an hour over?

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Do they ding you? Like,
describe how that happens? Yeah, I

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mean, so it's it's time over
distance. So they have scoring lines in

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the pit road and they know that
it takes whatever it is x amount of

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seconds to go from you know,
one line to the next, so there

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is a little bit of leeway where
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at the you know, the first
part of the timing loop, you can

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slow down and give it back.
But essentially, you know, we don't

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have spitometers inside the car. All
we have is just our RPM reading.

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So your your team will give you
an an rpm reading that you have to

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stay underneath. And you know,
it's it sounds really easy to just not

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speed, but the problem is is
that everyone is pushing it to the max,

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and if you don't push it,
it's a you know, a huge

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deficit and you're going to give up
a lot of positions on pit roads.

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So you know, it's it's it's
a if you're over by you know,

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point oh, one of a mile
an hour, you're you're gonna get penalized.

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So it's all about getting as close
as you can without going over man.

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And I kind of almost a dumb
question because I know the answer.

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But right when you get word in
your ear that they got us speeding on

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pit Row, are you just oh
your heart sinking? Yeah, it's it's

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bad. And you know, under
yellow flag conditions, if you get caught

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speeding, you gotta you know,
you drop to the back. And then

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under green flag conditions, if you
get caught speeding, you got to come

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down pit Road and make that dreaded
path through penalty where you're going forty five

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five miles an hour all the way
down the front stretch and the entire field

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is passing you going like one hundred
and twenty, one hundred and thirty,

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so it feels like you're crawling.
Driver of the number twenty Yahoo Tyota Camry

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for Joe Gibbs Racing. It's Christopher
Bell joining us on the downbeat. We're

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gonna be the triple header. We're
two weeks away here, get your tickets

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at Texas Motorspeedway dot com. Now
Christopher us three me, Mike and Danny

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were former night owls who now you
know, do morning radio. So we

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got to get up early. And
I read an interview that you did about

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how your habits changed from your dirt
racing days to the NASCAR lifestyle. Yeah,

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I was, I was right there
with you, man. It sounds

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like a similar story. I grew
up dirt track racing, and all dirt

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track racing is at nighttime. So
the normal schedule would be to you know,

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your race at seven, eight,
and they'll run into you know,

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ten eleven o'clock at night, and
then you would have to go and and

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you know, find food afterwards,
maybe wash the car. So you're up

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until the late hours or the early
hours of the morning, and you'd sleep

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in and the until lunchtime and you
go again. And then it took me

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a while to adjust to the normal
people's schedule, that's for sure. What

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time do you wake up? Now? I have a hard time sleeping in

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past nine, so I would say
seven to eight is my normal normal room.

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Oh my god, sleep until eight
sounds so good, Christopher, that

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sounds Christopher. You're a Norman,
Oklahoma kid, right, I am?

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Okay? So how long? Maybe? How long? There you go?

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So how long were you there before
you you you moved away, So I

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actually moved out of Oklahoma whenever I
was seventeen. Okay, so yeah,

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but you gave us a nice boomer
obviously a big OU supporter. Did you

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growing up or even like going back
to games and stuff, have you developed

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any kind of adult relationship with some
of the old guard there, like coach

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Switzer or anybody like that. I
I have not. You know, I'm

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a I'm a big fan and I
watch all the football games on TV and

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stuff like that, but I actually
do not know any of the coaches.

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Obviously, Bob Suits he was the
legendary coach on where I was there,

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so he's he's my guy. One
quote him. Here's one question that I've

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always wondered, and I know it's
different from team sports like the NBA.

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You see these guys seem to be
whether they're on opposing teams or or or

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not, they all kind of know
each other. They played for other teams,

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they have friendships. I was wondering, and it may be like this

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in golf too, I don't know. But in your sport, how how

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difficult is it to have relationships like
friendships with other guys that you're racing against.

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Is that something that you maintain or
cultivate or is it pretty much you're

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worried about your own scene and when
you're not racing, it's family time,

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hanging out in North Carolina with the
wife or whatever. Do you have like

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good buddies that are that are also
racing as well or is that kind of

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something that's that's not really a status
quo in an individual sport. Yeah,

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I mean it's actually a very interesting
topic, and I think the question or

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the answer is different for you know, different drivers in the series. And

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I've heard guys say that their competitors
are their enemies and they're never going to

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be friends with their competitors. And
then you know, you have other guys

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who have best friends in the industry
that they compete against on a weekly basis,

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So you know, I think everybody
has a little bit different mentality on

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it. For me, I probably
am indifferent, Like if if I,

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you know, meet someone that I
race against and we have a lot in

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common, then you know we might
be friends. Like myself and probably my

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closest guys in the in the sport
right now are Daniel Hemrick and John Hunter

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Nimachek. Who are two guys that
you know I've raced against at times and

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then we're in different series at times, and now you know we're racing against

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each other again, and so yeah, I mean, I think the answer

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is a little bit different for every
person. Christopher Bell, I do have

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to ask you about an incident that
happened down in Austin, just a couple

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hours south to hear with a guy
who maybe isn't your friend at least this

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week it's Kyle Busch. You guys
had a kind of a situation and I

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understand you did speak and bury the
hatchet, but I want to ask,

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I guess, is that hatchet ever
truly buried? And do you how often

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do you guys are concerned with on
track retaliation for an incident that happened maybe

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weeks ago or months ago, And
how often does it happen? I mean,

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it happens a lot. And we
saw we saw at the end of

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Richmond, you know, there was
a lot of beating and banging and people

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upset with each other. So you
know, I would say it's a weekly

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thing, and some tracks lead to
more contact than other tracks. Austin is

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you know, a place where there's
a lot of break zones, and you

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know, you're going from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty miles an hour

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all the way down to twenty or
thirty, and you're trying to outbreak people

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and make a hard corner. So
it leads to contact in those areas.

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And you know, Kyle Bush and
I have a you know, a long

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standing relationship because I drove for him
whenever I first got into the sport in

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twenty fifteen, and so he was
my boss for a period of time and

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then he turned into my teammate for
a period of time, and you know,

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we have a really good respect for
each other, and you know from

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obviously my standpoint is a little bit
different than his because I was on the

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winning side of it. But you
know, I hope that I hope it's

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that the hatchets buried and we're moving
on. But you know, we talked

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about it, and I'm sure that, yeah, I don't know, I

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don't know where he stands on it, do you? I mean, do

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you then, just by nature have
to keep an eye on your mirrors and

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if you see Bush right on your
bumper, I mean, is it a

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cross your mind, like, all
right, I got to raise a little

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differently because this retaliation might be around
any of the next corners. I mean,

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not not really like I think some
people. Yes, but my style

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and my thought process is just trying
to race everybody with respect. And you

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know, I made a mistake and
got into him and you know, spun

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him out and I was on the
winning side of it. He was on

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the losing side of it. But
it wasn't intentional, Like I didn't go

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in there trying to wreck him.
So if he's behind me and he's faster

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than me, I you know,
I would have let him go five weeks

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ago and and I'll let him go
next week. So you know, from

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my standpoint, I'm not going to
race him any differently than I would and

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just try and you know, treat
him with respect, race them with respect.

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And you know, maybe if the
roles are reversed and I'm faster than

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him, he might not cut me
a break if he normally would. But

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you know, time will tell.
Yeah, I imagine that, you know,

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your sport, it's a cross section
of society when it comes to you

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know, personality types, and I
would imagine that the ability to manage one's

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emotions when out there on the track, when it comes to a situation where,

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look, there's a guy that has
wronged you on the track before,

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for you to not use that initial
instinct to kind of get back at him,

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because you've always got to keep in
mind. It's like, it's not

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just about maybe you and the dude
you've got a feud with, You've got

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you know, twenty five other guys
behind you that their livelihoods depend on this

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as well. So, I mean, keeping your emotions in check has got

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to be like one of the top
priorities when you're out there, you know,

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an inch from each other going two
hundred miles an hour. Yeah,

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I mean, it's it's a big
deal. And there's just so much don't

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I don't know if pressure is the
right word, but there's so many people

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that are invested in what we do, right, So you know, each

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car has millions of dollars in sponsorship
and countless hours of resources trying to build

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this car, and and you know
a little bit of it, like I'm

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a symbol for all the people that
have, you know, put effort into

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this car, building this car,
all their families that are you know,

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having to sacrifice time with their loved
ones preparing these things, and then all

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the sponsorship dollars they go into this, and you know there's a there's a

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lot on the line for every single
competitor in every single car. So yeah,

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it's it's a big deal. This
is Christopher Bell, who you can

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see here in DFW in a couple
of weeks at the Auto Trader Echo Park

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Automotive four hundred tickets at Texas Motorspeedway
dot com. Now, Christopher, you're

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twenty nine. We're a bit older
than you. Have you ever seen the

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movie Days of Thunder. I don't
know that I've ever watched it fully through,

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but I've definitely seen parts of it. Yeah, and you've heard of

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it. So if you could name, I'm gonna put you on the spot

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here one celebrity spotter. Okay,
so you're trusting them, they're watching everyone

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around you, big name celebrity.
Who would it be a celebrity to spot

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for me? Oh man, I
have no earthly idea. It would have

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to be a singer, right,
I don't know, Maybe like a Morgan

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Freeman, someone with a very calming
voice. Yeah, I don't know.

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I'm thinking more like a country music
artist. Maybe, like I don't know

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Toby Keith, he's a fellow.
Wow, yeah, yeah, Harry Underwood

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maybe. So it's great that in
the movie Days It's under Robert Duval is

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the crew chief and he's outstanding that
movie. That that would be my crew

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chief or spot Her if I could
choose. You should watch that. I

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know you don't have time these days
as you're busy, you know, especially

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talking with us for ten minutes.
We appreciate, appreciate having you. Man.

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I have a non racing question,
Christopher Bell it's kind of racing.

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But my brother is a big Christopher
Bell Man. He's a card collector and

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he has like fifty Chris for Bell, like rookie cards and all this stuff.

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So he loves the hell out of
you. But I always wonder the

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day you have to, like sign
all the little plastic things, you know,

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Like, is do you budget like
a day when you have to I

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know you guys sign god as many
autographs as anyone on earth, But how

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do you spend that day when you
have to sign for like a card?

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Companies? Spend all day with a
sharpie in your hand. Yeah, I

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normally try and break it up and
do, like, you know, bits

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and pieces of it, so we'll
get I mean, I don't know.

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There's sometimes there's twenty cards, sometimes
there's a thousand cards. And whenever you

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get those big chunks, typically they'll
give us, you know, like a

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I don't know, a week time
frame or whatever, and I'll do X

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amount per day and try and not
make sure that they look good. But

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uh yeah, we do sign a
lot of autographs. All right, Well,

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we're all pulling for you, certainly
my brother for those cards value.

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All right, dude, cook Out
four hundred and Martinsville is this weekend.

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I know you've won there. You've
had a lot of success there, so

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we called it. That's gonna be
W one or W number two on the

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season. And then Sunday the fourteenth
is the Autotradero Echo Park Automotive four hundred

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at Texas Motor Speedway. Christopher bell
Man, cool dude. We can't thank

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you enough for jumping on with us. Wish are the best of luck and

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we will see you right here in
DFW in just a couple of weeks.

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Sounds good. We'll see you guys
at Texas Motor Speedway. Yes, sir,

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there he goes Christopher Bell all in
ass and tickets available at Texasmotorspeedway dot

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com. Cool guy, right,
very I enjoyed having him on the radio

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with us. Yeah, that's a
that's a hot beef with this with the

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Kyle Busch situation. He he did
downplay it, and I could tell you

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he was kind of done talking about
it after question two. We've just received

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a text from Jeff skin Wade.
What the hell does he want? All

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of this for the Devaul reference?
Yeah, all of this and you could

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tell this fool so Telegraph he was
gonna do the ice cream line. I'll

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try to blow Christopher Bell away.
I've never seen it. I don't know

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who you're talking about. I don't
watch TV. A movie car driver.

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You've never seen a thunder and it's
hard to get out of that once you

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set it up on a tea like
that, you know, eating ish cream

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all he wanted to do eating crew, you know. Doing research, I

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found an old interview with someone asked
him who would be his motor home driver

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and his crew chief, and they
gave him the option of Lebron James or

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Taylor Swift, and he said Taylor
would be the motor home driver. So

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I was like, okay, well, who's the spotter? Like that was

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something I thought that was a fair
question. I thought he would just rifle

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off Tom Hanks or whatever big name
he thought of, and he he struggled,

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and then yeah, he saved your
awkwardness about Days of Thunder by saying

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he'd take Toby Keith to be his
spotder. So you're right, he knocks

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you off the front page of the
Awkward Times. Oh no, I feel

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bad for what I did do.
Listen, just screwed this up. But

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tomorrow you'll get a chance to make
it all right when we have Chase Elliott

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on the on the show my guy. That happening for sure. Yes,

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yeah, back to him. I
picked him in the Daytona. Yes,

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we're looting up on NASCAR this week. Great, uh Chase Elliott eight.

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And of course you can hear all
the NASCAR races on our sister station.

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Hear me ask the same questions I
asked today. I thought you had a

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great question with the emotions. He
didn't get into it that much, but

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you're right, the emotions that you
have to manage in the car when you're

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mad, you're happy or angry.
I thought that was actually really interesting because

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we all feel that on the stupid
roads that we drive on, but we're

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not any type of pressure like those
guys in the car right in front of

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you didn't wreck you last week and
you have to go. But it's a

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good answer to say, there's so
much that goes into this, millions of

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dollars and hundreds of people and the
you know that are all watching, so

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you can't just be a salty ass
and and and knock him out. But

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I thought that was actually a really
good question. I thought, Danny,

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you got a B plus for that. Thank you. I feel like I

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did very well. I'm going to
take an A minus. And Kevin Turner

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also participated. It's I got the
In terms of memorable moments, it's eight

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fifty seven here on the downbeat on
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