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Hut Stricklin Interview Recap – NASCAR Stories You Won’t Believe! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Happy Thirsty Thursday, Tigs Wigs.
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Or if you're listening to this on our podcast platforms,
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Spotify, Apple, Happy Friday. So we have a lot to talk about
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tonight. It should be a fun show.
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But before we dive in, I've got a little bit of news to discuss,
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but no worries, it's all good. I think after a month of going
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live is a lot more often as we have.
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We kind of had to start to figure out our rhythm, our
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schedule, how we're going to do this.
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We were starting at 8:30, we've moved it to 7:30.
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Just kind of got to get a feel for everything.
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And I think we figured out a nice little balance.
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So moving forward, starting Monday, this is the last show
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we'll be doing live. This will be the last live show
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that we do this week starting Monday.
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We're just going to go live on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays.
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Because I mean, it hit me and I've thought about it and I'm
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like, you know, we're kind of kind of dicking ourselves a
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little bit, to be honest with you, with our right now TV show,
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which airs on Wednesdays at 7:30.
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And that's always a brand new show.
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That's always something you know, that's a a brand new show
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that doesn't coat go on Bubba. Sometimes they will, but not
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often. They don't go in the Bubba
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exclusives. We usually wait until they air
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before we show them on our YouTube.
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So it's always a fresh show. It takes a little more time to
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put those together and all of that stuff.
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So those those air on Wednesdays.
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We've just been going live and having fun and we love doing
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that but want you guys to go support that too and go support
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those shows and enjoy them. So that'll give us a chance to
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to kind of freshen up, catch up stuff like that and then come
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back in have a fun Thursday night show.
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So hopefully y'all understand that we're just kind of working
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on getting in a rhythm and maybe occasionally once we kind of get
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used to doing that, I am having all kinds of hell with my wire
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over here. OK, Once we get used to doing
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that, hopefully we can maybe occasionally go live on a Friday
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night or something like that. So unbelievable, unbelievable.
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And I'll tell you what yesterday we had an amazing, amazing
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interview last night with Hut Strickland.
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I don't know if you guys saw any of the saw the little video that
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I put out on social media today. I'm sure most of you did.
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If you didn't go check it out. I'll play it.
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Well, actually I'm not going to play it.
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You can go watch that, but I will play a couple later on
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before we close out of this show.
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I'm going to close the show with a couple of those, man.
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Just an hour and 45 minutes of racing.
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Just a great, great, great dude. Great conversation.
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Learned a lot. Heard a lot of stuff like he had
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a very long podcast on with Dale Earnhardt Junior with the Dale
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Junior download two hours or so long.
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And I, I know there's another one 'cause you know, you got to
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do a little work whenever you're going to interview somebody like
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that. A former NASCAR driver, and
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especially someone I remembered as a kid, do a little work, do a
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little bit of research, rekindle some memories is what really
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happened for me. So we touched on things that
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that weren't in those necessarily, and it was a lot of
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fun. Some of it was 'cause you got to
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overlap just to tell the story. But he definitely told us some
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new things, some surprises. I'll show you some of that later
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on tonight. One thing that I did want to
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say, it's an official thing. I can make this official.
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I have been asked to Co host the Cajun Critics, the Cajun Burger
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cook off along with the Cajun Critic himself.
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That takes place on Saturday, March 8th from 11:00 AM to 5:00
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PM under the Hwy. 90 Bridge in Morgan City, LA.
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It's going to be fun. I cannot wait.
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I'm going to, I'm just going to have a blast.
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It's 10. It's a $10 admission which
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includes 5 sample tickets and a People's Choice ticket so you
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can choose which one you think is the best.
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There's going to be kid activities, live music, vendors,
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and of course, a bunch of incredible freaking burgers.
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So go check out their Facebook page, the Cajun Burger Cook Off
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to meet the team. See the fun.
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There's there's already a bunch of trash talking starting to
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happen a little bit. He's been introducing the teams
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and you can go there and and see that on the Cajun Burger Cook
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off Facebook page, all the teams they've been sending in videos,
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stuff like that. It's a lot of fun.
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It's just going to be a great time.
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So anyway, can't look, I'm not, I can't wait to do it.
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Can't wait to go. Looking forward to it.
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The Cajun burger or the Cajun critic burger cook off.
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So tough to say, but anyhow, I wanted to get that out of the
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way. And with all of the the the top
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of the hour stuff out of the way, Blasey, thank you so much
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for letting me cut that promo so I can go ahead and get it done.
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I had a feeling. Nice.
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Had a feeling you were sitting in the area.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Yeah. Absolutely.
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Yeah. Kind of a little bonus time,
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compressed some things together in my day and next thing I know
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I looked, I was like, hey, it's seven, you know, whatever time I
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text you 715 or something like that, I don't know.
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What time you go there? And I still had to go run, do
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something, literally pull in the driveway at 7:29.
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So you're right. Perfect.
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Hey, man. You made it in.
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You made it in. Well, I don't know how long you
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been in here. I see a few texts.
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Let's say hi to some folks first.
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Paul Rogers. What is going on, brother?
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Good to see you, Mr. Paul Rogers.
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Biggie. Biggie says he's sorry that he
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can't stay in the chat tonight, but he popped in to say hi and
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to give us a. Drop it in buddy.
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And you know what else I know he would say hit that like button.
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So if you haven't hit that like button, hit that like button.
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Share this thing Subscribe Leave comments.
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Turn all your televisions on to this throughout your house.
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So if you've. Got everyone's.
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TV's take them all right now and just let them roll throughout
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the night. Go.
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Open a new social media account right now.
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Go live. Just did all of these things
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help us? We're getting there, Blasey.
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We're growing. We're growing pretty fast.
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Yeah, I want to grow faster. I want to get faster, I know you
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do. We're going to Brian Gilson.
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What is up, Brian? Good to see you, brother.
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Good to see you, Austin. Dennis in the house.
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What is that, Austin? Dennis in the house what sale is
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going on? What the?
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Hell is going on say I'm not going to I'm not going to I'm
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not going to do any more blasphemy.
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Actually I'm lying. Austin, the TikTok video that I
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was talking to you about getting your advice on it's your video
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and I'm going to do it again. I want to recut it and I'm I'm
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playing Terry Wayne. Wayne in the house.
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You know, it's a good night with.
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Terry Wayne. Terry Wayne.
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Oh, Terry Wayne. I was down there the other day.
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I was talking to Terry Wayne. I like just saying.
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Terry Wayne reminds me. Of growing up about it rolls off
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the tongue it does Mr. Nathan sharp what is up brother Nathan
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traveled to boot. They've been getting their have
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advised them on the rode wireless go to's.
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They're getting their setup going, making their videos.
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Those are good mics. Those are really I mean, I got
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my mics are OK those I have they're not bad at all, but
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those are really good. I keep.
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I just keep seeing the. Difference.
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Yeah, there's a difference. But I mean, they're they're
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really good. DGI makes a good one as well.
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From what I think that's what Austin uses.
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I'm just having hell with stuff in here tonight.
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I noticed Austin the other day for the first time.
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He normally doesn't have a mic here.
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I saw the other day he had like a little lapel mic on does does
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he normally have one? I did.
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Or is it just hiding from me somewhere?
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I that's a great question. I don't know.
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I just thought I noticed it the other day for the first time
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when he had one on. I felt, I always felt like he
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was doing a mic from the camera somehow, some kind of a, you
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know, directional deal. I don't know.
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I don't know anything about. I mean, I've been in there.
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I've been in this thing. That's really it.
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That's fine. That that's, I've been in the
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room. I can't still have yet to figure
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out how he's got himself propped up and set up in there.
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I know he got a new mic like a like a mic mic, yeah.
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He did do that. We didn't see that.
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He's stuck at home tonight for the second night in a row with a
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with his little baby and his wife's going to eat dinner.
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So let's all pray for Austin. Let's hope that he can survive
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this night. I don't miss those days
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necessarily. I do.
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I told him. I miss those days.
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I miss Riley, I miss Haley being that little.
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They were so cute and and all, but I mean, it was a lot of
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work. It was a lot of work it.
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Was a lot. It's hard to see at the time
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like you're going, oh gosh, you oh, you know, like some of it,
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some of it's great, right and then some of it's just like man
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wears you out and this and that got to do this.
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But you know yet, man, when it's gone, it's gone.
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Hit that boy up with some, hit that boy up with some Doctor
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Brown's bottles and milk him up. He'll be fine.
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He'll go to sleep and you'll probably, you'll probably go to
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sleep too. That's the best part, man.
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Blasey, glad you're in here to bounce some of this stuff off of
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tonight. Yeah, what you got planned, I
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have no idea. I.
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Just not a lot, not really a whole lot.
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Just a little bit of some stuff to touch on #1 college baseball
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starts tomorrow. It does.
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Very pumped about. That I am too.
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I'm really pumped about it. Yeah.
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Where's LSU sitting after like, like right now, like going out
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of the season where, where they ranked, I'm sure.
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Well, I. Think they're preseason #1 and
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some polls they may be #2 and some I'm.
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I'm not sure. I don't really look at them
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until I don't matter, until they let's.
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See what you got? Let's see what you got.
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Yeah. Troy's entering #25 in the
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country, man, I saw in. Are they like, yeah, that's
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pretty cool. I mean, it's good to be noticed.
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At the end of the day, we got to still Sunbelt's a really tough
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conference. Man, well, they did well last
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year. They took Alabama, yeah.
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Should have beat Alabama one night.
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And yeah, I think they did beat somebody pretty decent.
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And you know, yeah, Troy, obviously, if they're right.
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Kyle Meade's done a great job, and a couple of years that he's
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been there. I think it's maybe his third
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year or something in there. Really, man, it's just got this
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program rolling. Yeah.
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So, yeah, it's, you know, everything on paper looks great,
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right? So what?
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We shall see. We shall see.
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Odd times for LSU. They, they first pitches at like
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2:00 tomorrow. Weird.
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Such a like it's just kind of screws everybody up to come to.
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But that's the way that's the way Jay Johnson does that.
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And he's like, look, you're going to get upset at some of
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this stuff, but this is the way it it worked.
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He's he's got a a method to his madness.
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They had to move up Saturday to like 11:00.
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I don't even know if they'll get that in because of the weather.
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Supposed to be some bad weather coming through and Sunday
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they're at one that's normal. But yeah, baseball season, dude,
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it doesn't feel like baseball season, but it it's here.
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Alex Bregman got traded. He.
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Got $120 million that. Works out for three years.
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That's crazy, man, You know what I mean?
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That's not even the highest pay. That's 40 million a year to go
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play baseball. That's wild, isn't it?
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It really, really is. I'm, I'm just glad he didn't go
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to the Yankees. You know, I, I don't, I like the
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Red Sox. So I didn't want him to go to
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the Yankees and then become a nemesis, though the Red Sox
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could. We'll see how good the Astros
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can, if they can keep rolling, you know, like they have been,
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that that's going to be tough. The best stadium in the country
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gets to play in. I said place is so cool.
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That's. I've never been to Fenway.
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Coolest place I've ever been, Yeah.
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I would think it would I did you get to go in the outfield and
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like that? That's what I'd want to do, is
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be above the big monster and. Yeah.
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So those tickets have become like this premium deal, right.
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So I snuck in there for sure, like, you know, kind of like we
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did over in mobile. I had, I got standing room only
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tickets and and just and I got there so early, like so early so
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I could just walk around the stadium and hang out.
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And I mean, I talked to this guy that worked there for like 30
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something years, you know, like just had conversations with him.
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It that was a cool spot. We should have been recording
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that stuff and getting those great interviews, but just
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conversations. But yeah, I went everywhere.
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I went up there, came back down, you know, so I just want to go
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up here and look around. So yeah, dude, that, that place
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is incredible. Absolutely incredible.
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I can't. I will eventually make it there.
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Yeah, we'll make it. There I've been twice now, so
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it's and I'd go again in a heartbeat.
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Let's see man, the the Daytona 5 hundreds this weekend.
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Dang, is it really? Yeah, actually.
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Yeah, the dual one fit we didn't even we're about to get into
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this. This is we never.
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Brought that up, didn't we? Not a thing.
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Hour and. 47 minutes. We never brought it up one time.
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Not not what at the very tail end he talked about modern day
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NASCAR and like the end of the show.
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Yeah, the last one of the last couple sentences of the show.
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Yeah, maybe the last Jeff, that Jeff Gordon question was the
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show pretty much ends about 30 seconds at the end of that
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answer. That's why I wanted to put that
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out as a little teaser, because I don't know how many people
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will make it that far. And that's one of the best
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quotes. Yeah, man, there's some.
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So many good ones. There's a lot of good.
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Stuff in that that's that's a great conversation, man, that
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was a great conversation. Just just what a cool dude and
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man, just living in a time just there's a whole different area
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NASCAR, you know, and we're talking about Hut Strickland.
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If y'all haven't figured that out.
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I don't know if you've mentioned it already, but you know, just
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not one of the last of the of the Alabama gang, you know, from
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Calera AL and you know the Allisons and all that story Red
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farmer, all that crew and he was in all right in the middle of
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that stuff, man in the 80s and 90s.
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I said that I was going to show. I was going to show one or two
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here, show a clip. Think we ought to show a?
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Clip Why wouldn't you? It's one of my favorite parts of
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the whole show right here. Blasey, I've got I've got 3 on
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cue. We may show all three because
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trust me, I could get a million from this one.
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That's unbelievable. So good.
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Who were some of you buds that you really like to do stuff
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with, you know off the track did I mean, I know y'all had to
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because like anything you racing some, but then there's a lot of
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downtime and press days and events you got to be at
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together. Was anybody that you that you
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really just enjoyed or you and Pam and y'all vacation together
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with them or anything? Gosh, not other drivers.
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We, we, I didn't like any drivers.
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HUD is a competitor baby. That's what I wanted to hear.
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You probably you probably took out like your crew chief and his
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wife like what couple of your buddies from the shop that you
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buddies? Absolutely.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We we kept our circle small,
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tried to, but for the most part it was, you know, we I just, you
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know, I never liked having, I never liked the idea of having,
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you know, being close friends with people you're on the track
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with. You know, I was, I was too close
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to Davey, you know, closer and I really wanted to be and, but,
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but for the most part, he and I, I mean, we were friends and true
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friends and. They didn't want to hang around
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them people. Want to hang around my enemies?
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I hate them. I want to beat them every single
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week that. Dude is a competitor, but he's
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just so nice and so laid back. But then whenever you I mean, he
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ain't afraid to just. It is it.
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Shoots you straight I mean I just tell it like it is it's man
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just how fun was that? I, I had no, I mean, I knew I'd
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enjoy it because I loved him. Watching him as a, as a kid,
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whenever I first started getting into NASCAR, that was, he was
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one of the drivers that was always running up at the front
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or getting in it with somebody like Jeremy Mayfield or somebody
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like that. Just always, you know, always
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hanging around. Damn good driver.
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Very good driver, man. He's one of those dudes like,
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and you realize especially you dive into that conversation that
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we had with him, just how many like it's, it's amazing.
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What's amazing about him, how many different car changes he
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went through and how he would he's just the guy they would
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call to show up literally like the day before race and go out
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there and finish the top ten. Like he wasn't doing this like
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in this consistent state, you know what I mean?
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It was like so everywhere. He never could really land
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anywhere very long. And that was the it's amazing.
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He did as well as he did. It was like, that's that's your
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guy. You know what I mean?
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Like he was let's let's bring him in, Let's bring in, you
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know, So yeah, it's kind of just what what what is it I'm trying
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to think of? He's like the, oh, shoot.
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What is his name from Kevin Costner baseball movie catcher?
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Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
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He's like that of NASCAR, You know what I mean?
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Like, you know, just, you know, just I shouldn't even say that
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that's like in the Bush Series or whatever, but I'm just he's
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right there, dude, knocking on the door every week and just
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grinding it out. And huge respect from all the
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other drivers too. That's the thing.
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Yeah, that's the biggest thing. Like you, you know how good of a
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driver he is. He's a driver's driver.
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They Yes, yes. I've never heard anything bad
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said about him. They all respect the heck out of
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him. For the love of the game, That's
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yeah, Yeah. There, Austin Dennis, Thank you.
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Thank you, Sir. Thank you, Sir.
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Thank. You, Sir.
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Yeah. That dude, they all love him.
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They all knew that he was a competitor.
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That I mean, they they they didn't want to.
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They knew they had to beat him and especially before he, when
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he was really coming up in the 80s, before he made the Cup,
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like he won every, every weekend.
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He beat everybody. And then I, I heard him say, he
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didn't say it last night, but I've heard him say on another
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podcast that once you get to that level, everybody there that
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you're racing against, they all were the people that everybody
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hated at all the other levels because they won at every other
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level. So really was the best of the
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best of the best. And then it comes down to the
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teams at that point in time. And still, I know it's still the
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same way, just a different, a little bit still comes down to
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the teams with the most money, who has the biggest shops, the
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biggest budget, who can build the best engines, all that type
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of stuff. And when you're running from
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team to team and you're not with one for more than a year or two,
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not necessarily all his fault, you know, just always a concert
18:48
rotation because probably sponsors said, well, you're
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going to have to change drivers if we're going to keep
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sponsoring this. So boom, boom, boom, everything
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rolls downhill. They had to get out of cars.
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And that, you know, that there's a lot of drivers that have gone
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through NASCAR that had a good season or had a good half a
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season, won a couple races or something, and then just go die
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off on the vine. And it's not because they just
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suddenly couldn't drive a race car anymore.
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No, dude, it's like so much, there's so much luck involved in
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that to be in the right place at the right time.
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And I think I'd said this before, one time before Arch.
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So this I when I worked at Cordis, Ashley Shearwood went
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through training with me. Super like super cool.
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And her husband at the time, this was 2021, he was the car
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chief, Christopher Bell. Well, Christopher Bell at that
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point still was struggling a little bit.
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And she was telling me how he's debating getting out of doing
19:43
that and going and doing some private stuff in some private
19:46
garage stuff, basically for people with high end cars, a
19:49
good little deal. But it's like, and I'm just
19:51
thinking that sucks. You gotta leave NASCAR.
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And then suddenly they lit fire, you know what I mean?
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And the rest has been history. Christopher Bell now is a top
19:58
driver. That's kind of when they took
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off and you know, so. That was at that point in life
20:03
where he could have easily just been this garage mechanic guy
20:05
somewhere, you know what I mean? Now he's in the in the elite top
20:08
ten year over year, you know, as a as a, as a car chief.
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So it's just such a fickle thing.
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You know it is. You never know where it's going
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to go. Something that we didn't, that
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we didn't even and talk talk about.
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Wait, I mean, in a sense it was talked about, but I didn't
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really want to bring it up. But you know, you know, it
20:28
drives him crazy that he never won one.
20:30
You know, I mean it, it just has to and it, it has to, it would
20:34
drive me insane. And he was so close both the
20:37
time he had the best, it was more than twice, 2 very notable
20:41
times. So that it was like, not only
20:44
should he have won, he easily had the best car on the
20:47
racetrack. And, you know, you just got to
20:49
think what happens if he won one of those?
20:53
What happens to his career, you know, especially the especially
20:56
the one in Michigan where he finished second to Davy Allison.
21:00
Yeah. What if he won that race?
21:02
Yeah. Just the what ifs.
21:04
But we weren't going to get into that with him.
21:07
But that was on my mind the whole time.
21:09
I forgot we were like recording a podcast at one point.
21:12
Jr. did a wonderful job hosting it.
21:14
It was so nice to just be on the other side of things for a
21:18
little bit. Just jump in.
21:20
Yeah, me and Blasey just sat and I at one point.
21:22
I've watched, I've obviously watched it all back.
21:25
It's chopped up, it's ready to go.
21:27
I've got to cut the commercials and then it's.
21:29
It is 2 shows, isn't it 2? Beautiful shows.
21:32
Yeah, that's really perfect. It was like.
21:33
Two shows when I got done I was like that felt like 2 shows.
21:35
Yeah, and we talked and and I was like, I think you're right.
21:39
And I said, you know, when I think it turned was whenever I
21:41
brought up his dad. And then sure enough that it was
21:46
the time was like right at 42 minutes, all of his like, wow,
21:50
that and that was kind of the shift.
21:52
So it it ends up the beauty of that shows it's going to be two.
21:56
We're going to have Part 1. We'll debut next Wednesday on
21:59
Right Now TV, and Part 2 will come out the next Wednesday.
22:04
And unlike most movies, yeah, I know you're about to say it too.
22:08
Unlike most movies. I know, I know from just, I
22:10
hadn't seen it like you have. But Part 2 is going to be better
22:13
than Part 1's going to be good. That's just ice like teeing
22:16
things up. Part 1 tells good right Part.
22:19
One tells the story from when he was a kid to basically getting
22:26
in his first race car and then how his dad comes into play as
22:33
and and the question that I asked that ends the the ends the
22:36
deal that ends that show is so it's kind of a teaser.
22:41
Any of y'all can listen to this whole thing on the Bubba podcast
22:44
exclusive unedited, not punched up, not cleaned up.
22:48
That's it's. Are you doing that tip to tail?
22:50
Huh. Tip to tail raw and unedited
22:52
didn't I just sent it in but I've I've gone through it since
22:57
I didn't mess it up. There wasn't anything that just
22:59
tightened it up for TV. And what we did with him at the
23:02
very end, did you put that on the very front end of the
23:04
podcast, the intro? No, I.
23:06
Shouldn't I thought about that? Did him doing that and then roll
23:09
right into? That would have made sense, damn
23:12
it. Oh well, we'll probably chop it
23:14
up again. That would have made sense, no?
23:16
You ain't got to do anything. It's fine.
23:17
It's fine. But it was more of an insight.
23:19
It was funny. It was just, oh.
23:20
Oh, oh, that part. No, I haven't messed with that
23:24
yet. No, no, no, that'll be on next
23:28
week's Tigs tonight somehow or another.
23:30
Yeah, for sure that definitely will be coming out.
23:33
But it it just unbelievable the the whole conversation with him
23:38
and it is like you said, a tale of two tales.
23:40
The second-half we talk about food, music, some some more
23:46
racing, BBQ. We got into BBQ at some point.
23:50
Then little bits of controversy, which is.
23:53
Always a little bit, you know what I mean?
23:55
Like, yeah, yeah, it was good dude.
23:57
It was good. You know, he was so fun.
23:59
He's such a nice guy. He comes off as like a nice guy
24:01
because he was a nice guy. He's a good dude.
24:02
But don't think that dude ain't got that deep down hardcore
24:06
desire to whip your ass and something, you know what I mean?
24:08
Like it's. There, that is a fact.
24:11
You could just sense it and you you just know it.
24:14
But he was a nice guy, super nice guy, great hair, great
24:17
hair. Fantastic hair.
24:19
So yeah, the Daytona some. Say some say the best.
24:22
Hair. Hey, some say the best hair.
24:27
I can't get the. I don't.
24:28
Think he's the best hair I don't have I.
24:29
Don't need to stick my you need Trump and I'll just, I'll just
24:32
stay with Morgan. I really must say he was a he
24:36
was a really good guest from time to time.
24:39
He had to get on that track and run around.
24:42
All right, that's all I got. From tip to tail.
24:44
No one's done it better. We're idiots.
24:51
We are idiots. So, yeah, the duel is on right
24:54
now. I saw, I saw that you said you
24:57
were watching the duels. Paul Rogers.
24:59
Should be about time for the second one here in a minute.
25:02
So we're going. We're not going to go to to.
25:05
I want to. I want to see the second one.
25:06
And I have a bacon wrapped pork loin that bacon wrapped stuffed
25:11
with cornbread from a fine folks at best stop.
25:16
Someone gave it to my dad or something.
25:19
I've had one bite of it, it was fantastic and I also have some
25:24
Rabideau smoked sausage kicking on the old Weber.
25:28
Just offset just enjoying it. Just off on the edge, just
25:31
hanging out with itself. About 200° just staying warm
25:35
waiting for it. That post Joe.
25:37
Oh, OK. Well, yeah, I got I got lasagna
25:40
in there. Just do nothing special, just
25:41
some old frozen lasagna. Ain't nothing all the good
25:43
frozen lasagna, though, from time to time.
25:45
I don't. I don't hit the.
25:46
Spot not a thing and little. Bread's fixed.
25:49
Guys chat Paul, Paul particularly, I know Paul is a
25:53
NASCAR guy. Who do you think wins the
25:57
Daytona 500? I'm going to be honest with you,
26:00
Blasey. I I did a little research and
26:02
beyond Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano, Brett Kesglowski.
26:08
Yeah, name so hard. Always been tough for me to say.
26:11
Martin Truex who is in this after retiring or trying to
26:16
qualify? Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney, Kyle
26:19
Busch. Kyle Busch is kind of in a
26:21
similar situation to Dale Earnhardt where he's entering
26:26
his 20th Daytona 500 start. That's what's crazy cuz I
26:31
thought Dale Earnhardt was so old whenever he won that one in
26:35
1998. I don't think Kyle Busch is that
26:38
old, mainly probably because he's I think we're probably the
26:41
same. It's so different.
26:42
It's so weird. It's like age has changed or
26:44
something. I don't, I don't understand
26:46
either. I could, you know, it's yeah.
26:48
But beyond what I was getting at with that, beyond that, I do not
26:51
know NASCAR like I used to. So I'm really that.
26:54
That's why I didn't really want to bring up new NASCAR stuff
26:57
because frankly, I don't. I watch it occasionally.
27:00
I'll watch the Daytona 500, but I'm not into it like I used to.
27:04
One thing I did want to ask him is what does he think about
27:07
this? Winning a winning the what?
27:11
The heat or whatever they call it and NASCAR, the halfway point
27:15
where you get some extra points and all that and you're like, so
27:19
they declare 2 winners in a race.
27:21
Technically, technically only one crosses the checkered flag.
27:25
But I don't like that and I think it's dumb.
27:28
I'm hoping it goes away. Yeah, I, I don't know.
27:31
Yeah, that's is that, is that new for this year they're.
27:34
Doing No, they've been. What they've been doing, OK,
27:36
Yeah. You're talking about those
27:36
phases, like stages, Yeah. And all that stuff, Yeah.
27:40
So you know. You know, Dale Junior's got a
27:42
team this year. Him and Chris Stapleton have
27:44
teamed up. Yes, yeah, they were racing just
27:47
a second ago. He was in like 9th place while I
27:50
was watching. What you mean in Talladega?
27:53
I mean, Daytona, that can turn in a heartbeat.
27:56
Yeah, yeah. So we've taken this game up from
27:59
the Xfinity Series into the into the main show here.
28:02
But that's I mean, you know, I love Dale Junior.
28:05
Like that's I think, I think maybe you and I talked about
28:07
that. Yeah, I think.
28:08
We talked about it last night. Really, really, really just that
28:11
way you handled that from being Dale's son and like so cool.
28:14
Like really made me gravitate towards him and I I was all in
28:17
the NASCAR until then We retired.
28:19
I kind of got away from it, but I'm, I think I think it's, it
28:22
might be getting good again. You know, I mean, there's enough
28:24
characters in play there, some people in there, you know, I
28:26
like to follow, you know, I think right now I like
28:29
Christopher Bell. It's kind of my guy, you know,
28:30
just a little loose connection there through people, you know,
28:33
so. And it's, it's so yeah, I'm, I'm
28:36
definitely looking forward to it.
28:37
What do we think of Ross Chastain?
28:39
I just don't know enough about him to be honest with you.
28:42
I know the name. I know, I know.
28:44
He's a good driver. Yeah.
28:46
Yeah, I don't. I don't have anything for or
28:49
against him. No, I don't either.
28:51
I'm going to get more into NASCAR though this year.
28:53
That is something that I'm going, I miss it.
28:56
I miss being a fan of it. And you know, I kind of just
29:00
want to, I want to see if it, if I can get back in, you know,
29:03
just get back into it a little bit.
29:05
I love the character, the people who present it.
29:08
We're all people who used to be drivers or whatever, you know,
29:11
So I mean. I like that.
29:12
I agree this show put you on show or you done.
29:17
Do what? Oh yeah, I'm going to show one
29:19
more clip. Yeah, I'm going to show one more
29:21
clip. I was going to say.
29:22
So I'm excited. That's why I want to see it I.
29:24
Know you do. I know you do, in fact.
29:26
Well, I've only got. Yeah, this is the only other one
29:29
you've seen the Jeff Gordon when I posted that.
29:31
So this is the only other one I made.
29:33
This is going to be Hut on Jimmy Spencer Mr. Excitement question
29:38
I have not heard answered but one thing that I totally do
29:42
remember as a kid that I loved you and Jimmy Spencer didn't
29:46
seem to get along too well on the track.
29:48
Have y'all made-up now? Do you ever talk or how is that
29:52
Dude was always crazy and entertaining to.
29:55
Or was it a work for myself? Are y'all just working
29:57
everybody? Was it a work?
29:59
Let me clarify something. Jimmy Spencer never got along.
30:02
With anything. I was.
30:05
Going to say it, I don't know how anybody could get along with
30:07
Hut. Hut's about as easy going as
30:09
they get. Well, yeah, Spencer and I got
30:14
it. You know, he, he would, you
30:16
know, every ride, every cup ride I had from, from the Heinz
30:20
ketchup car, Spencer would come along and he'd go to car owner
30:25
and he'd say, you know, Hut's not doing a good job driving a
30:29
car. I can drive it better than Hut.
30:30
And so then then you know, I got fired from the not not saying he
30:35
had anything to do with it, but he would he would go in there
30:38
and toot his own horn louder. And I was then I was Tooting my
30:40
own horn. So and then you know, when I
30:44
drove from Bobby, you know he come along and drove from drove
30:49
for Bobby. When When you know after.
30:52
You know. He was.
30:54
He followed me to Bobby's and then I left Bobby's and went to
30:58
Junior Johnson to the McDonald's car and follows me, goes to
31:01
McDonald's and you know, wow. I just chased you around.
31:04
There, like you got to stage 520.
31:06
Then and go, and then I go, I go to, I go to, I go to the Smoking
31:12
Joe's car. And he follows me to Smoking
31:14
Joe's car. I mean, you know, and it's like,
31:17
you know, dude, but I don't know.
31:19
I don't know. I don't, you know, I don't know
31:21
why or whatever. But anyway, yeah.
31:23
I think he's just jealous of your hair.
31:25
I I think that's. Probably was that was it.
31:28
He had none. Stage Five.
31:32
Clinger I. Didn't hear that.
31:34
Problem tonight, yeah. He totally said that, and then
31:40
he said yeah, he had none. We had none.
31:43
So good, man. It was that it was just, it was
31:46
an hour and 45 minutes of that. Yeah.
31:50
So I mean, it was really it I guess with this show's really
31:53
turned into the post Hut Strickland show, which is more
31:56
than fine because it was so good.
31:58
We need it. We wanted to do a show last
32:00
night, but I had to go to help my dad and we talked on the
32:04
phone. Blasey and I could have
32:07
completely could have done just what we did tonight but last
32:10
night, but I wouldn't have had any of the videos to show.
32:12
That's right. It's all been conceptual, yeah.
32:15
That's right. So yeah, anyhow, man, it was
32:18
fun. Happy Valentine's Day to
32:21
everybody out there. I don't know what you guys and
32:25
ladies have going on, but I hope that it is fantastic and.
32:29
Yeah, just don't, Don't. I'm also sorry, little, little
32:34
PSA here, don't, don't go blow all your money on dumb flowers
32:37
and a bunch of big old animals and balloons.
32:40
You know, get them something nice, be nice.
32:41
I get it, the idea of it. But like, man, I'm just I'm not
32:44
a big Valentine's Day guy. To be honest with you.
32:46
I'm kind of a party pooper on this deal.
32:49
Look, let's go to dinner, right? That's you, remember?
32:51
Let's go do it. But I am giving Hallmark and all
32:53
them people Dang bunch of money for not.
32:55
Gonna lie. I don't even like going to
32:56
dinner on Valentine's Day. It's I get it.
32:58
You can't get in anyway. I'd rather do, you know.
33:00
What? I'd rather cook something at
33:01
home, do something like that and do something like a steak, you
33:04
know what I mean? Let's hang out.
33:05
We're. Going to celebrate.
33:06
Not tomorrow and apparently not Saturday either.
33:10
So she's doing something. So I guess we're going Sunday or
33:13
whenever we don't. It's not a thing for us.
33:16
It never has been. No, no, I think I'm going to get
33:19
Amanda and I, we're going to get us some nice fine.
33:21
She don't know this. She has some fine rib eye.
33:23
We're just going to yeah, rib eye.
33:26
We. Get you a rib eye Publix set
33:30
Where you rib eyes Or do you have a meat shop?
33:34
There, we got a really good meat market over there in Pensacola.
33:37
So I need to run over there tomorrow.
33:40
I need to run over there. Could you send that A5 Wagyu Oh
33:43
make a video of this please? Oh yeah, that A5.
33:48
I'm more of a prime. I like the prime rib eyes.
33:50
That's my deal, Wagyu. I thought I've gone too far.
33:52
I thought I've just gone over the edge a little bit too much.
33:55
Too much it is for the. Price.
33:58
It definitely is. I mean, I've had it and it's
34:01
great and I'm not knocking it, but for the price did you say?
34:04
Worth the squeeze on that action.
34:06
Now I like I prefer prime as well, especially in a steak, but
34:11
I've certainly had plenty of select steaks and if you look
34:14
for the right marbling, it's like, Hey, I don't know how you
34:17
that that's prime. I love when I find those.
34:21
I totally agree. Yep.
34:22
They're hard to find. They're not as easy as they used
34:25
to be to find those. The old selects aren't what they
34:28
used to be. They're getting leaner.
34:30
They are, yeah. I agree with you.
34:33
Which means that they're just rolling through faster and
34:36
they're younger and they haven't had a chance to get fat, fat,
34:38
fat. Anyhow, I digress.
34:41
Let's go eat as usual. We in this always hungry.
34:46
So yeah. Thank you all for hanging out
34:48
with us. We appreciate you all appreciate
34:49
everything. Looking forward to all kind of
34:51
cool stuff. And like last night, man, we
34:55
we've so realize how much we've got to really push to have
34:58
guests because we love having guests on this show.
35:00
Man, it's it's so much fun. It it inspires us all to kind of
35:04
dig a little deeper, sharpen the pencil, as they say, a little
35:06
bit, tighten things up. And last night was evident of
35:09
that and you'll see it. So please tune in.
35:11
Check out both episodes are going to be coming up.
35:13
And again, thank you all for tuning in tonight.