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You're listening to the downbeat on the
freak. Okay, we have been rocking

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hard today with all kinds of cool
stuff. But yesterday we were discussing the

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dayton of five hundred because it got
postponed to Monday. And another thing that

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did yesterday to on President's Day when
we were live on the air was like

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we did the Presidential Explosion. We
have part two of that. It's more

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fun facts about presidents you did not
know. I promise some of these coming

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at you. I found that fascinating
yesterday so good. We got through the

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first fifteen, ending with James Buchanan, which turns out he was probably our

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first gay president. We just didn't
really know. We'll pick it up with

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Abe Lincoln and move on here.
That's at nine. So Daytona gets postponed.

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We had a little bet riding on
it. We had each drafted three

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drivers. Yeah, and the way
we're gonna do is you're going to add

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up the you know, finishing position, and whoever had the highest total would

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lose the bet. Danny Had,
Danny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Ty Gibbs,

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Mike Had, Brad Keselowski, Kyle
Busch and Kyle Larson and I,

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Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, and
Bubba Wallace and we had us damn race

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yesterday about three point thirty got it
going. Let me say something real quick.

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Yeah, I am probably like the
majority of people that are listening to

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us right now that don't really follow
the sport. I don't either anymore,

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that don't really know much about the
sport other than maybe a few of a

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handful of the big names. But
I will say this, having a little

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bit of a dog in the hunt, having something somewhat on the line that

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was awesome. I watched the whole
damn thing. Maybe not as the laser

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focused, but pretty much from stem
to stern. I watched that entire race,

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and I was into it. I
loved it. I want to do

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this for every major I'd whether it
be F one or any of this stuff,

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because I'm telling you, that is
an exciting ass and I know the

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people that are that are diehards or
that that know a lot more about it

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than me are like, of course, dumbass. I get it, but

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it's just not in my lane.
I opened. I opened my lane options

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up yesterday and I had an absolute
thrilling blast watching that entire race. I

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never thought i'd say this, but
just the simple fact of having three drivers

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in that thing and something on the
line made me watch it and appreciate it

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and understand. I have such a
greater understanding for for that, for those

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events in that track in particular,
I learned so much. Don't close your

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mind to it just because it's you
know, you think it's just NASCAR watching

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that, it's freaking great. I
think it was amazing. I love to

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hear that it was so much fun. Dude. I watched Daytona every year,

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but I watch a lot of race
and if it's on multiple kinds.

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But I enjoyed yesterday maybe more than
I can remem Number two. And it's

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it's because we had dogs in the
hunt, for sure, but just to

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watch it and you it's not it's
so easy to say I don't want to

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watch cars going around on the circle. Sure, that is what it is.

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But if you immerse yourself in it
and you start to hear the stories

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and the strategies more importantly, and
the coverage is top notch, Yeah,

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dude, it really did. Kevin
Harvey really good talking really strategy that was

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well, he's like Romo he's fresh
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his first race. I think he
did it last year, right, did

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he? I think he did it
last year. This is year two.

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Well, when they intro okay,
maybe you're probably right, But when they

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introed him, they're like my new
full time partner. So I don't know

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if he was just part time last
year. I think so. But yeah,

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he was great providing insight. I
mean, he was on the track

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very recently and has been for twenty
years. But yeah, I'm glad you

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hear you say that, because I
already liked racing, but I really enjoyed

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yesterday because I just to hear it
all man, to hear the strategies and

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the tire strategies and when you're just
gonna splash a gas and yes, it's

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sort of interesting. The stage things, you know, is you're gonna kind

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of you know, we're not going
to win this race, but we can

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make a run at stage two.
Yeah, so we're just gonna splash gas

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and our tires are gonna be worn, and yeah, that'll hurt us in

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the next you know, in the
in the big picture, but we're gonna

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make a run at this That was
great. My guy Ryan Blaney won stage

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two and I was like, hell, yeah, I'm gonna win this race

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tonight. I mean, good shape, gonna win the bet, not gonna

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have to sweat anything. And then
we had ricks as we come down to

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close this bad boy out because there's
one wreck very early in the race,

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first dozen laps or so, and
then it was caution free, with the

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exception of the caution they naturally put
in after the stages. No crashes until

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whatever seven or eight laps, that's
whatever it was. And you could tell

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because they run in that formation and
they're drafting like crazy, and then you

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just can almost feel the tension building
as their impatience builds, and once anyone

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goes for anything, or just a
five percent increase in aggression by the drivers,

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it's just a boiling pot that you
know is gonna blow. And it

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did, and they took out hell
half the field, right eighteen cars,

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eight teen eighteen cars. It's like
watching Kevin from the office bring in that

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huge tub of chili, you know, like you know, he's waddling,

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he's having a hard time. It's
got to go and it had to be

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chili, you know, And then
there it goes I dropped some chili on

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the ground and that wreck. I
saw them office. What happened? What

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happened? Kevin? Michael told me
to bring chili today and I brought it

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to the office. Jim tripped me
and I fell and chili went everywhere.

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Kevin from the office joins a list
of dingu's characters, along with any Australian

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man and Sir Perr don't remember how
that's it? That's it idiots. And

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then you know when there's a crash
out size, you're looking at a half

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an hour delay. Yeah, but
they spent almost the entire delay showing you

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fifty different camp angles from every car, inside the car, looking at the

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drivers. It's it was great,
fascinating. I mean back bumper cams,

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front bumper cams, every angle,
imaginable, every speed. Let's let's take

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a look at this in full speed. You get such a yeah, full

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audio. You get audio between the
pit crews and their crew chiefs with the

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drivers. Things that are said,
and I know that there's probably a lot

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of swearing, so they have to
cut that stuff up on the fly,

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edit stuff out, but everything's recorded. Everything. This would hurt your fan

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base of people go into races.
But another reason why I was I was

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more invested is because this race was
happening on a Monday. We had no

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MAVs, like the Stars were playing, and I had a little bit of

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you know, kind of scoreboard watching
there a little bit. But the fact

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that it was just during the week
at night got time. Then I get,

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I think I can do that better
than Sunday afternoon a lot of things

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I might be doing. So that's
another thing, the weeknight NASCAR race.

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Yeah, I'm interested in that.
And it goes until it's under the lights.

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Yeah, it was great. I
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very fun, but I lost a
bit. Dandy's guys finished fourteen seventeen nineteen,

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so he had fifty it was your
total. Mike was eleven twelve thirty

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three fifty six total and I was
six thirty thirty two sixty eight. Bubba

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Walls so you had the top finisher
out of the nine guys we all drafted

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was Bubba Wallace finishing sixth. But
you got wiped out in some of the

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crashes and Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney
got hitting that big wreck. Well,

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we thought you had a chance with
Bubba because he seemed to he remained in

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the thing after the big crash,
and he was rising into the top.

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He was in the top twenty,
I believe at one point. And I'm

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thinking Bubba might save this for Kevin, you know, because it initially we

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thought, oh, well he's done
because he's got two two drivers that are

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completely knocked out. But so what
do I have to do? Now?

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I have to do it? Wear
a NASCAR shirt. It's threefold. I've

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purchased a specific NASCAR shirt. I
don't know. I'll be here in like

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a week. Okay, you have
to wear that for a week straight.

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Okay, now I don't know.
Okay, we're gonna have good weather actually,

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so he can do just a T
shirt. T shirt and I want

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you to prance around. Look good. You got to walk around, can't

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hide. You don't have to.
But we'd like a picture or two in

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public for sure, if but that's
not part of the bed. So you

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have to wear the same T shirt. Yes, I'm an extra mile guy.

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I got this for a full week. You have to draw the winner,

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and Danny is the winner. He
had the lowest total score. A

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beautiful, full effort, beautiful picture
illustration of Bill Elliott. Yes, who's

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Bill Elliott? He drove the McDonald's
car and the Budweiser car for many years.

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A legend offer you if I could
I pay for someone who is a

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good artist to commission a beautiful piece
of artwork of Bill Elliott. I offered

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last night to do it for sixty
eight dollars, which is coincidentally the point

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total that you had that landed you
in this conundrum. I think it's possible

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that I could have a beautiful piece
of art delivered to the stud tomorrow during

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the show. Are you going to
get Vernon Wells Senior on the case?

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Okay, you're gonna get the guy
from prison to do it, aren't you

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a norm? No? He's not
incredible, you know he is like top

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Yeah, yeah, he's incredible.
Sports artist. Who's the guy that draws

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pictures for us the cartoonists. I
did give a bit of a prompt to

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my buddy Mick him Inez, and
he said he would be will to bring

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it up here, even though he
lives in Mineral Wells. Don't make him.

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I told him not to, But
I think what he's done is beautiful.

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He's already done it. Well,
he's got a rough draft that I

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don't want you guys to see it
till it's finished. How about you have

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to go pick it up? Oh
no, no, no no, I'll

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just print out a graphic. You
know. He said he'd be willing to

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you know, he'd be willing to
come up and drop it off. He

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wants to come hang out in the
big city. You know, maybe I'll

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make hot dogs. You're okay with
that trade off rather than me drawing mill

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ll Aft like, I think it's
funny for you to have to draw.

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But yes, no, dude,
you're the loser. Danny's the winner.

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Danny's getting the big prize here,
So I think he'd rather have a nice

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piece from mixing. I would look
as long as it's suitable, suitable for

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framing. Elliot see moother ding dong. He looks like every odd every day

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a ding. See. That's better
than me doing that, right, Yeah,

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yeah, that's fine. I don't
I don't care. I'm kind of

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not involved. And then that's the
Twitter. Okay, this is the caveat.

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You have to is it three times? Three times in a week in

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a week, and if how are
you? I would just do them back

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to back Monday morning. But you
have to really, yeah, early bury

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these things. You have to three
times in a week, like do the

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retweet with comment with quote, yep, with a quote tweet and all you

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can write is wood smash. Yeah
yeah, okay, okay, yeah.

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Now you can be smart and go
to like the Watermelon Commission of Texas or

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help you get through this. You
can do what I had planned on doing

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if when I was pretty sure I
was going to lose last night, I

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was preparing my tweets I have,
and you know who's going to be first,

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Julie Okay, yeah, maybe a
nice picture of her and Emily promoting

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the mom game. Retweet it.
It's wood smash. I've just retweeted.

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That's harsh. I was going to
go hard if I lost this bet.

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Yeah, I'm going at you.
I just retweeted everybody's Dan McDowell, TC

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Fleming and I think that's Josh remote
Mill Pizza, who are apparently at a

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taping of Doctor Phil's show today,
whoa every tweeted them with a wood wood

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smash. Oh you're already doing this. I did one, Okay, I'll

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get two more to go. I'll
brain I'm push it throughout the week.

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There's no time to but you can
get those done whenever. The T shirt

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will arrive in like a week,
so maybe week after next, Okay,

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depending on what it gets here.
If it doesn't fit, it's not bad.

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It looks nice. You're so full
of crapest most nonsensical explosion of color.

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It's actually not tackiness. Okay,
Well, it was going to be

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all day Dale ear and Heart tank
top, and it's just his face and

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body like huge. But then,
as I often do, I picture I'm

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a thirty three chance I losing this
thing, and I don't want to rock

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this tank. Ude. I'll tell
you what if if any one of us

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lost the the Dale earned Heart tank
top, bet we would all be patrick

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ewing the heck out of that thing
under t No, I'm dead serious.

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I will actually request to have this
shirt after you get done paying your bed.

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Like it's kind of like hipster cool. It's vintage. Yeah, it

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is vintage really and vintage Nascar learns
in New Orleans. I will go to

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a couple of thrift shops with Christina
or just walking around Magazine Street, like

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nineties Nascar is very hot amongst the
kids. Okay, serious, I know

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that sounds weird, like ugly jackets
Nascar. Really, we just swamped me

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down at the no one knows the
kids sneaker con Yeah, just swap me

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down there. Tons of those big
Dale Earnhardt shirts are big, right,

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Yeah, hot items. Can you
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and then we'll cold call to lead
off the next segment. Okay, So

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the winner of the of the five
hundred was William Byron, who was actually

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one of the guys featured in the
Netflix Full Full Go because he made the

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playoff last year. Anyway, he
one hundred percent is one of these kids

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who is a video gamer, racing
sim dude, and it's just pretty wild

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that this dude just won the Daytona
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a successful driver for seven eight years, real car driver. You know,

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he was Exfinity before he was this. He was in the truck series Craftsman.

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Before that, he was other,
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local disciplines. But this dude was
a little kid and he was played video

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games and then he got like a
kind of a shoddy simulator, a little

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wheel and some pedals, and his
parents, as you can imagine, we're

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like, get the hell off this
thing. Stop playing your games, and

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he just kept playing him and trying
to save money and getting a little bit

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better of a simulator and saying,
this is something I want to pursue,

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Like I like, this is not
just me playing games. There's some tweets

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of him asking questions to some guys
who won, you know, eye racing

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races, like how to hold your
tires better, or speed around this corner,

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put on a very special set of
match tires. Any ice cream if

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you like. But there's tweets of
him like asking questions to successful eye racers

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and he just was obsessed with this
and it's really I think and lost,

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I'm an idiot. The only sport
that you can actually go this route because

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the simulators are so good, so
accurate. Max Verstappen gets on a simulator

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very regularly, I mean all the
best of the best race simulators. Because

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if the air pressure is exactly like
it nowadays, the tire where and how

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your driving style affects your tires,
and like it's perfect now it's just like

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the exception of the danger. I
guess it is the perfect simulation. But

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this dude, William Byron, who
just won the five hundred absolutely is one

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of those kids who just twelve thirty
years ago, was at his parents' house

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just playing a video game and his
dad kept seeing his results and he was

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beating everybody at these simulators and his
dad has is like, Jesus, you're

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maybe really good at this, and
then we have to make the decision,

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how do we get you in a
real damn car? And they did it.

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There's a lot of money in racing, it costs a lot, but

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they got him in some of the
low level leagues and right out of the

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gates, he was really really good
because he was ready because the work he

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put it in simulators. I don't
know it was ten thousand hours or if

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that rule of exactly applies, but
before he ever jumped into a real car,

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he had done more laps than even
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growing up, which is the traditional
way you become a NASCAR driver or a

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race car driver at all. And
he absolutely took the the trail of video

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gamer turned racer who's now a Daytona
five hundred cham incredit. That's insane.

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And I have a cousin she's sixteen
and she does motocross and it's like,

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how do you get into that?
But she started early early age. Her

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dad used to do some of that, but like started early age and just

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like kept doing it. But there's
no sim for motocross. I don't think

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like that's And I was like,
how you're found out starting that? That

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really might just be your dad taking
an interest and what is my son really

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doing in that room? Yeah,
it might just be that to go,

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oh, he's winning, like because
he's probably not going no, dad,

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look I'm winning. I'll look at
that. He might be, but he

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but maybe not. That's a good
parent kind of shepherd your kid's interests,

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you know. It's it's recognizing the
interest and the potential that the interest has.

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I think they took him to a
race at Martinsville when he was six

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or seven years old and he's like, oh my god, I love this

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and then cool, but you're not
just winning at Mario Kart, like for

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the dad to acknowledge it's not just
a video game. This is a high

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level simulator that he is setting the
fastest lap times among twenty adults, you

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know or real you know, realer. His mom and dad probably had like

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hard conversations like do you really want
to spend this much money, yes,

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similar, or like like, I
don't know if this is the right way

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to spend our money here, you
know, and then just pay it off

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now or spend one hundred thousand dollars
on school that the kid doesn't want to

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do. Right, You always push
your kid in the direction of what they're

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interested in and foster that, you
know, especially if they do because a

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lot of kids maybe don't show interest
in anything right that they want to do.

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If they're showing something they want to
do, like invest in that,

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yeah, I totally agree. But
I think a lot of kids really want

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to do video games all day.
Yeah, all right, which is not

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generally Well, there's a difference between
killing time and showing a real passion and

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aptitude for something too. And clearly
the kid that won the Daytona had that,

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you know, fifteen years ago,
and his parents had a keen eye

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enough to see it and nurture it. That's cool. And I notice that

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there's a difference between Fortnite, which
I love, and Call of Duty which

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I love and I Racing which is
very accurate and uh and a possible track

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to where he is now, which
is the damn Daytona five hundred champs.

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Yeah, fantastic. We'll coming up
next though. We're gonna cold call.

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He may not even answer, so
have something else ready. Oh it's the

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Presidential Explosion Part two. Oh,
so we're covering. We're covered, We're

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good. But we're gonna call Ron
Gill again, a man who I have

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not talked to him thirty years.
We used to work at a golf course

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together. I gave him a very
incredible piece of NASCAR membor Billy after I

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went to the Daytona five hundred,
just handed it to him because he was

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my friend. And I guess we're
just gonna ask him if, hey,

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man, you remember that it's gonna
be great. Maybe he will, Maybe

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it's dangerous. He might not even
be there. There's only one way to

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find out. WHU who I am? H. We'll do it all.

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