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A Solid 4 Beer Thoughts - May Wrap Up and Yes-Cers!
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Our last episode of our favorite month, the Indy 500 is in the books and the Pacers are storming through the playoffs. We talk one last time to AS4 correspondent Bryce Dinninger about his thoughts on the race, we talk about our thoughts and takeaways from the race, and we talk about the Pacers playoff run.
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Introduction & Setting
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A solid four beer thoughts. Pop a cold one and get interactive with us on YouTube, Facebook, X or Instagram. And away we go. It's another episode of a solid four beer thoughts. This time we are in the safe confines of Jeff's mom's basement.
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JMB baby. So that we're not out in public. Playing the fool. Camera got, oh, Jeff moved. That's why I thought the camera was screwed up. I had it aimed, I thought, perfectly, but apparently not. His hybrid cannot fit in the camera. Yes, apparently. like We may have roll that a little bit. But anyhow, it is the end
Post-Race Discussion with Bryce
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of May. We survived the 500. Bryce, the AS4 correspondent, is with us.
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One final time for this race season. And hopefully we can get him on for other things. But ah for now, it's just all about what happened at the two and a half mile oval.
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Also, I'm pretty sure Link's got a little bit of this week in history and all kinds of. Oh, apparently not. No, sir. So F you on note this week in history. But I'm sure Brett either has a joke of the week or two thumbs up
Jeff's Trip to Louisville
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in the next hour. This week in history was this week. Yeah.
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ah you know here's jimmy ursay died i assumed we had way the hell too much stuff talk about yeah i thought about it yesterday i had a little bit time yesterday evening to put it together was like a clo like no that's not gonna do it so there you go nice job we had too much shit to talk about too much to talk about absolutely so jeff did you do anything fun over the weekend went down a lake i figured yeah just out of the it was it was a strange weekend ah You know, when you leave out on Memorial Day weekend, you expect a shit ton of traffic going down 65 through Louisville.
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It was probably Louisville, Louisville, Louisville. friggin who is your if you're from there it read it was It was a smooth, easy drive. Surprisingly, nobody was down at the lake. Really? Yeah, it was. It was a very strange Memorial Day weekend. Is is that named after Lewis?
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Yes. From Lewis and Clark? Yes. okay I would assume it is. I have no fucking idea. I just said. It's sort of the where they banged. ah You mean Louie? That's where they sack a joint. That's insensitive, Tom. I think tag teamed is the correct word. Yeah, because that's better.
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Anyhow. Well, she was a WWE wwe fan, so. Of course she was. was Louie and Clark, by the way. That's why Louie. Louie and Clark, yeah. all right. Probably. Weren't they French? Anyhow. C.
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I mean, we or something. As far as she knows, they were French. It was a lot of we's. Anyhow, Link, what did you
Carb Day Experiences
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do? You know, race weekend, dude. yeah i I did not make it to carb day, unfortunately.
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was going to, but yeah, a little J-O-B there got in got in the way. And if an electrician would have shown up on time, i would have been a carb day.
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Mr. Electrician decided not to show up on time, so he fucked my day up. and If I could have gone, but I would have only seen 40 or so minutes of practice is what I assumed by the time I got into the seats. That's more than I saw. Yeah, you would have seen more than me.
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I was like, no. Because that was my whole reason to go. we watched about 30 minutes of practice. so i i just I wasn't going to do it for that. and I don't care for the pit stop competition or the concert, so I'm like, no, I'm not going to waste the effort.
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that 50 bucks to get in and the effort to park and get in there and find my family. i was like, no, I'm just going home. It's $50 now to get in. At the gate. for forty eight forty four each shit It was 35 when you bought them a header line. But 40.
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40 pre-Friday and 50 Friday. yeah yeah So I went i a grocery shopping and went home. ah To the Kroger's? yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The Kroger's. Kroger's. At the Kroger's. So I'm
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running to Kroger, running around, picking shit up for the weekend to get ready to head down the lake. And he snuck up behind you? No, I snuck up on him and
Sponsorships & Guest Hosting
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my sister, my sister-in-law. We're standing over by the... was talking to my sister.
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I go, don't you fucking people have jobs? It's 12 o'clock on a Friday. Says the guy at 12 o'clock on a Friday. exactly Exactly. That was bizarre. Three of us family members were at the same Kroger's and we're like, what the frick? So anyway, wow there you go. Yeah, and then race day. I'm sure we'll talk all about that and then brett what's up man hey i'm sure if we go on to bryce next so uh yeah so carb day pretty well behaved hit the uh melon cougar cover band and i'll give a shout out to uh clayton anderson i think that's his name yeah yeah yeah clayton anderson that dude was good he was good i'm not uh i know link calls calls me closet country all the time but ah He is. i heard
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but i'm I'm fine with some country. It's got to be the right whatever. This dude was good. playing He didn't do just country. Yeah, he was cover. He did a bunch cover. A lot of stuff. He did a nice job. He's an Indiana boy. Yeah, he's from Bedford.
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yeah Yeah, he does a great job. I was surprised. Not to talk about this week because... We're talking race, but went to college graduation, which was, uh, they did a nice job at that thing. You had a crammed up weekend. Yeah, you did. I did. I did get now. There was a little painful, but they did a nice job of college graduation. So congratulations to old Davey who listens once in a while. I think congrats.
Memorial Day Tributes & Flyover
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Congrats. I already congratulated him at the race. Awesome.
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He sat right by Are we going Bryce or you? My weekend was like everybody else's. It was all about the race. Bryce, how about you? What did you do this weekend? Did you do anything this weekend, Bryce?
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Well, ill tell you what. I met this really cool guy on card day that was an electrician, and he was late to an appointment, but he wanted have a bunch beers. Shut the hell up, Bryce.
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That time... Where's the Bryce's dump button? Where's the, where, yeah. I don't know. All right. No, that's not it. All out of love. All out of love. All out love. I hear you. It's all good.
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It's all good. that That's actually pretty funny. Yeah. No, I mean, you know, we we can dive into it later, but, you know, it was another unique 500 based, you know, with the weather delay, with the colder temps, and, you know, the the crash right in front of me before the race even started. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
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You know, and it's it was just another one we can chalk up to 500 in history that say, hey, do you remember when? yeah And so, you know, a lot of different stories within it. At least roberta Roberto Guerrero has a ah twin now. To go with him. Oh, my gosh. that and and how And you could you could just see. mean, obviously, he's disappointed.
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But all he in himself. He was devastated. He's got to still be beat. Because imagine if that's you. i mean, think put it for a second, just put yourself in his shoes. what What are you doing for the next, I don't know, six months?
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Beating yourself up every
Pregame & Race Start Insights
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time you wake up in the morning. Yeah, I think that mean that professional athlete, though, mentality is you've got to get to the next. Dude, that'd be so hard spot.
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It's your but's the biggest event of the year. No, i mean I'm not saying he's not ever going to really forget that. I'm just saying at some point you've got to go, okay, we got we're Detroit.
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next weekend so on that on that train of thought i bet he didn't get late that night though yeah i feel pretty good he didn't want it you probably didn't want it on yeah no get off me you're heavy type stuff on that get your hybrid out of here get your so on that train of thought marco andretti beats the out of himself every day of the year then right wow wow he still has the last he still has the last name yeah exactly and we don't yeah so yeah Wow.
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That might be the only difference. And probably several million dollars. Yes. Yeah, we can jump into whatever. Let's
Kyle Larson's Gesture: Intentions?
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do it. We can. So who wants to start? I mean, Bryce? All right. So first of all, I want to say. Okay. No. Okay. Fine.
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It has nothing to do with anything significant, except when we went to carb day for the first time, I was in a police escort into the track. Oh, nice. Hell of a way to go. Hell of a way to go. Yeah. and what We didn't go far. We were we met there on 10th street and then got to the track.
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Best way. but Absolutely. Was that through the company? No, some friends of mine. And apparently, officers. By our family. Sorry, BR.
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ah That too. um But so the ah if you're an IMPD officer that does that on the race weekend, if you have time in between assigned escorts, you they do them on the side too.
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is is the way it was explained to me so they're double dipping yeah yeah so double dipping so yeah so we got a we got a quick escort in and it was fun and and i gotta tell you it was a good time carb day was a decent time weather sucked all weekend but you know but na yeah i don't know um I didn't like it. um one i They did fine for what it was. yeah um I'm always put off when when they're just like nonstop profanity for no real reason. And that that was the lead singer of All American Reject. We didn't hang out for Bret Michaels. Day was over. We were pretty much over it.
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um Should have. Apparently it was a pretty good show. But Carb day was fun. it It was a good day for it as chilly
Santino's Consistent Top 10 Finishes
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as it was outside all weekend. Yeah. So anyhow, other than that, it was the ah partying on Saturday and the race on Sunday.
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So the race on Sunday. Bryce? Well, I was going ask Bryce what carb day is like for him ah yeah once practice is done.
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but You guys are part of the pit stop. Is everybody part of the pit stop? I i legit don't know. I think it's a top eight at that point. The top eight cars in the race? Qualifying? In the competition. That competition. Oh, so you have to qualify to get to it? They do prelims. They do prelims. Okay. At some point.
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Yeah. Is that right, Bryce? ah Best of my knowledge, that is correct. But, I mean, that's a lot of work for the mechanics. Yeah. And as much work as we had all so all month of May, we're changing out two engines.
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If you want to go back to the start of the GP and then changing over to the Indy 500 engine um after that last Monday practice before carb day. You know, I know the money's there, but at the same time, it's like, hey, you know, maybe it's just as good that we just get the car ready for the race. But, hey, hats off to Team Penske. That's probably the only thing that went right for them this month.
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right that's a good yeah we can We can get into that. But what do you do? keep saying what do you what do you just get into oh but What do you do on Friday? after i mean but What's your fri your carb day like? or do you Because you don't have any responsibilities for the practice or anything like that. d Are you just hanging out of the track on Friday? he doesn No, I wish. It used to be like that. But what Floyd's done since I've been there now 10 years is they have ah utilized me to help out with sponsors and
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then introduce Santino and
Santino Off-Track: Personality & BBQs
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David. So I start off, okay, just a quick, let me just recap the day. So as soon as practice is over um and everything's clear, you hopefully you have a good race car and and and no issues, unlike some of the people had, um including Hunter Ray, which was still amazing. We'll talk about that later.
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But and then, so as soon as that's over, headset's off, a little bit of a sigh of relief, say, okay, we have a race car. So then I have to put on a different hat, which is, entertained, you know, the sponsors that basically help us get on the track. because Without them, we really couldn't do it.
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And so this year we had a few new sponsors, Venture HR, which they had some really incredible guests there that were just asking such good questions and we pass around a steering wheel you know which isn't really a steering wheel anymore it's it's a it'll like a game controller running it is like a gaming controller and uh so we pass that around and then you know i'll explain what i can and which as we talked about two weeks ago you know with the weight jacker you know i got a little better on that but then i introduced santino and david and you know and it's just then i all the
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go to another sponsor and talk to them and do the same thing. and And I really like it. I mean, it's one of those things where again, I I'm on the outside. So in other words, there would be no reason for me there as an engineer or a mechanic.
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So whatever I can do to help the team, you know, I'll do it. And, you know, I guess, you know, I don't, I don't speak too much Westside
Race Highlights & Strategy
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where they can understand me a little bit. So guess that's a good thing. You've been out in Arizona long enough. Well, i don't know it's Arizona, but no, it's a. I grow up. Yeah, that's right. Look at me now. They're fixing to make the car faster. So I soer yeah You still got all your teeth.
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Yeah, exactly. and nu So, and then, and then after that, it is a matter of, so again, like I said, Right now, currently, i'm I'm hanging outside here in Cape Creek, Arizona with my at my cousin's house.
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Um, and so there's three of us here, Karen, Cam, and Chris that were all at the 500. We've all got back to our real lives and the full-time jobs. And we, yeah, that's exactly. yeah But don't get me wrong. We're, we're throwing some beers back. so Good job.
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Yeah. So no, I think, you know, that's, that's our carb day. And then we went out to a nice dinner down on Mass Ave and I highly recommend, i hope I say this right, Vincenzo. B-I-C-I-N-O. It is one of the best Italian restaurants I've been to in a long time. Wow. It's actually Vincenzo. I hate to do that to you, Bryce. but why That's great. Here we go. Well, I am drinking i am drinking wine from Willamette County. Willamette. I got
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ah
Post-Race Tech Inspections
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that's in alaska that makes total sense to me if you would have said something else would have had no flipping clue what you meant that's right damn it will am it that's right oh my gosh i love you brother all right so let's talk about the uh the big race on sunday okay what um so first of all from a fan perspective coolest thing that happened on sunday oh Yes. Blackhawks helicopter. Was that the coolest thing ever? It was unbelievable.
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Oh, you should have been there. From TV, it was un-effing-belief. Bryce, could you touch them? I was going to say, Bryce, they were at your head level, weren't they?
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This is the first year I didn't have my phone out because I was so damn cold. And I'm thinking of all the years not to have my phone out for the flyover and these Blackhawk helicopters at eye level. And I swear I made Iconc with one of the guys, you know, like, know, kind of gave him with salute.
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And that was the most unbelievable. And even Santino, they flew over and Santino goes, this is sick. That's awesome. Yeah.
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And yeah, and again, I know people can say, hey, NASCAR did that years ago, which is great. I don't i don't care. if if something's good, copy it. right And I just thought it was the most incredible thing. I think what but the Indianapolis Motor Speedway does in honoring the troops and just, you know,
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giving us the freedom to be able to enjoy this incredible event and then attach the event to it. i mean, you can, i in my opinion, they do about as good a job as it can be. And I will tell you, though, it's hard not to get choked up, even when weather conditions are eitherre super hot or super cold.
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When you see, you know, all the military going by and in the pickup trucks, um that's that's hard to keep it together. In fact, that kind of gets me, that and taps get me more than anything. Sure. tap Taps got me new.
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Still, I still, you could hear a pin drop in that place when I play taps. I thought the exact same thing. that's the thing that gets me, is that in that moment, that many people are quiet quiet and half of them are drunk already yeah they're already blasted um but you i mean and i'm sure there's areas where there are annoying people but For all the noise leading up to that, and then when they get to that moment and as quiet as that place gets, yep I think that's what gets you, right? I think that because you realize in that moment, everybody is recognizing the significance of the weekend and why we celebrate the holiday. That's all you hear. yeah You don't hear some jackass yelling in the background. Get in the hole!
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Yeah. Baba booey!
Weather Challenges on Race Day
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yeah You don't hear nothing right except that friggin' bugle horn. bugle. yeah and it it's it but money got me this year i'm not gonna lie it gets me every year gotta to wear my sunglasses yep we were down there with three young kids down at the lake house watching our house six seven eight year old friends of ours they're their kids they went silent. i mean, they're sitting there playing, running around, yeah and that even they went silent on it and was sitting there watching TV. It was pretty cool. It was pretty intense. It is, yep.
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The Blackhawks. the but and Unbelievable. so They call it the the people's lap? Is that what they called it? I heard Dave Calabro for a second, and and then one of the comments he made was Hey, how about all you ah veteran race fans out there? You thought you had seen everything. yes he did say that. And I was like, yeah, you're right. I thought I'd seen everything. right So, silly question. Could you feel the air off the rotors? Not really. No. No. And actually. Incredibly quiet. even Even in the video I took. What?
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yeah and Until they're right there. Until they're right there. Even in the video I took, you don't really hear the helicopter that well until it's like right there or pass yeah and that that was incorrect because as low as they were as slow as they were flying as slow as they were flying I got called bullshit on some of this here I can't believe that my man link but I've known for a long ass time what I did that that's one of his favorite moments it wasn't when Tom Brady got his ass booed I forgot all about that son of bitch. I forgot all about that son of bitch. That was awesome.
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But Tom had a great comeback on Twitter or whatever it was. Yeah, that was pretty funny. if i had had a've I've never really wanted to throw a any object on any field of play or anything.
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if I had a glass bottle, though, I would have thrown it it in front of the tires. 100%. I'd been okay if Jimmy Johnson would have scuffed the wall. I'd been okay. I'd been all right.
Pacing Car Experiences
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Whatever. Yeah, he's done that a few times there before. He's got practice. Screw Tom Brady. He's got practice. Get that guy the hell away from my race. I will say that that is probably one of the things that don't know why...
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Why? Well, I just don't get it. I get that. I know. but Straight straighty hand. I know. But but you also got there are too many. Given what was going on this weekend with the Pacers playing the Knicks, there's too many New York people here, man. yeah Yeah. Derek Jeter. Yeah. I got nothing and against Derek Jeter. Right. but Why? He's a Yankee. Why the hell is he here? Right. And Rodriguez. and Yeah. Yeah. yeah there's They're Yankees.
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Get them out of here. What was cool, I don't know if you guys saw it on the replay. Damn Yankees. When you went and watched the race afterwards, but that teacher, don't know what call him, the instructor that was with Strahan in the pace car. Yeah.
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When he was sitting there talking, they were talking to Strahan, and he was sitting there giving him hand gestures, you know speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down. They were was they were showing it on the screen. yeah Oh, they did? They were? Okay. okay I'm guessing they do that to all of them. Either that or they're talking in their ear or something. Yeah, it was just pretty cool to watch. Yeah.
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It was. So that that's pre-race stuff. I mean, there's a lot more than that. But yeah i right if anybody doesn't say that helicopter lap was the the coolest thing ever. i I mean, the fact that that Bryce says dude getting ready race the biggest race every year. Right.
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It like really notices that and even comments on that. That says a lot. Well, and and the one thing that I was glad they did it was because the flyover was so freaking high this year. It was. Yeah.
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much higher than normal. I'm very disappointed by the flyover, but the Blackhawks made up for it. ye so that's example Anyhow, but then there was a race. yeah well Before we got to green flag, though.
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yeah before we yeah Yeah, Bryce, you started spotting on like the pace laps, right? Oh, he spotted all night. Hold on, I'm not ready yet. Take us through that, Bryce. How does that play out when when it's a parade lap and somebody whacks the wall?
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You know, what this is in this I'm not going to say I had a premonition, but I had just a thought that something could happen probably ah as soon as we took the green flag, not only because we're having a rookie starting, but just I just thought, man, something doesn't feel right.
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You know, you got a half hour to 45 minute delay with the water, you know, just a little bit of precipitation. And then I see the three car, we even back and forth like all the cars were, and then just dart to the inside and hit the wall.
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And we're two rows behind it. And at that time, fortunately, we hadn't lined up the two rows of three, we were still single file to get heat in the tires. And so all I said to Santino,
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and I'm going to paraphrase a little bit because sometimes you just don't know what you're saying, is stay middle, stay
Rookie Performance Analysis
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middle, stay middle, car three, debris ah high, debris low, three hit the wall, and Santino goes, how in the hell that happened? And I and I think all I said was, I'll tell you later. There's something along those lines. And then you see the replay, and you you know you know what happened. Nothing broke.
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yeah I mean, its this was absolutely getting on it at the wrong time. Whether there was moisture on the track or whatever, that but there definitely wasn't tire temperatures built up yet.
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i mean, the guy's a professional. He's one of the best. He's also a super nice guy. yeah And it just, it you know, you and you so then you see the replay, and then, course, You know because they have replay up there and with my cars on the other side of the track.
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And that the debris was out there for a while. Because, again, all the safety workers, they're not really – I mean, they're ready. Yeah, but they're not expecting something. doesn't happen very often. So, to me, yeah, what they did after that is then and then I'm just saying, all right, debris is still up high, still down low, follow the pace car, go middle, go middle, watch your tires.
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And um and then then you try to just get ready. and I think someone said later, they said, hey, Strahan led six laps in Indianapolis 500. Yeah, you say it didn't have doesn't happen very often, twice as far as I know.
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yeah yeah Yeah. But you also made a comment last week about the cooler temperatures probably having some effect. it It had to, right? Oh, no doubt about it. And I got to believe the moisture, all those things going on leading up to it. And you had said that, you know, there's a there's a sweet spot in the temperature and 60 degrees ain't it.
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No, I think I think all the drivers would have preferred probably 10 or 15 more degrees. Right. ah Fans as well. yeah yeah And I can't imagine you were cozy up there. Right.
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No, I wore my, what do you call that, middle weather Foot Joy golf gloves. um You know, not full on rain, but, right you know, and and everybody's looking at me earlier in the year like, oh, why you why do you carry gloves? I'm like, oh, you never know. And now I'm looking at like, yeah. yeah question now Going to Detroit next week. air Everybody's got gloves.
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Foot Joy's my sponsor. So on one point on that accident with mc McLaughlin, Kyle Larson drove by. I'm sure you saw it. and gave him a a thumbs up and and somebody said on social media or whatever hey dick moved by kyle larson did you did you see any of that when he drove by yeah i saw the replay there yeah there's nothing to that there's not you know i don't i mean kyle still had plenty of time to get to the next race it wasn't you know and kyle's not like that at all okay i that guy is
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he is a class act and and I'd love him to be an Indy car full time. Quite honestly. um It'd be good for our sport. I think he's realizing you don't downshift and turn to, yep when you get into you know, but that's what caught him out. But you know what, when you're not in these cars all the time and i mean, they struggled all the months. i mean, he, he crashed three times. um You know, if you're going to count the open test.
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Yep. So um that that's a tough month and and that's, that's an experience in these types of cars, but, I'll still go on record and say when it comes to American drivers, overall American drivers in all types of racing, I put him up against anybody if you're going to put him in any kind of car to race.
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I thought it was interesting what he said after running the Coca-Cola 600, wrecking out of that early. um i mean I think he did finish the race in that, but he did he did say you know this this was a lot. This was a lot this month.
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He said, but he wants to come back and race. He wants to race in the 500 every year if he can. but And I don't know how that would happen. Well, but he he kind of alluded to the fact that he's not going to try the double again. Correct. And more like just putting the focus on running running the 500. Yeah, but how would that work with sponsors? Yeah, I don't know. yeah But i I was excited to hear him say that.
00:25:54
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I don't think we have to worry about him finding a sponsor. Yeah. No, I mean, but his full-time ride. His full-time ride. NASCAR might have an issue with that. Don't they have the same sponsor on both cars? currently Hendrick's sponsors NASCAR too yeah I guess some of the liveries because they change every week in NASCAR um so ah no I don't know that's a tough call yeah um but you know you but sometimes you read but read between the lines and say what did he say there did he say hey, I'm kind of done with NASCAR, which I know he's not. That's that's easy money. right But if he really wants to ah tackle IndyCar full time, mean, Lord knows he does have the talent to do it. And, and you know, um he's not pulling a Jimmy Johnson that's like, hey, it's at the my career. I'm going to do this right and try it.
00:26:44
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You know, I think Kyle's young enough to say, hey, I can do this and be successful. Yeah. um Like I said, I mean, I think I don't care if you're an IndyCar purist. There were
Sponsor Interactions on Carb Day
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a lot of NASCAR drivers back in the day that had success in Indianapolis. Donnie Allison comes to mind.
00:27:01
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um Yes, Bobby's brother. But yeah, I mean, I i think it'd be great. I mean, i I think that it's time to kind of be bury the the hatchet on one series versus the other, in my opinion, and just say, and and that includes leadership. To me, it's like, guys,
00:27:16
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How can we both succeed and not try to kill the other? um You know, but anyway, like that I'll go off on a tangent on that one. All right. So then we get into the race after ah the Scotty Mack thing. after What, like four laps later or something like that? We finally got that thing started. um So how how did you feel the rookie did getting getting the thing going?
00:27:39
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Well, so before the race, I walked up and down pitt lane with the head engineer and we kind of look at cars in front of us and see what kind of downforce package they have. um And again, I just listened to him and he said, and he'll kind of show me, hey, this car's trimmed out.
00:27:55
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This car is set up to have a little more downforce that I can run in traffic. They had him pretty trim because they didn't, they weren't successful in running in traffic during all the practice days.
00:28:07
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So they had that car very trimmed out, which means lower downforce, and that can run up front. And that's why he led the first couple laps, because he was going to the front. And he felt comfortable there. But we all knew what was going to cost them was pit stops. and you can practice all you want, but you cannot you cannot replicate so the Indy 500 tight pit lane, even if you're the very end.
00:28:33
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And, you know, it caught him out on the first spit stop. I think he lost five or six positions. And then he obviously had a break lockup and then crashed into his guys. Fortunately, none of them were hurt seriously.
00:28:46
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But that could have been a lot worse. That could have been a lot worse. so he It and and usually is. His interview ah over over the PA before it started, I'm like, ooh.
00:29:01
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Don't sound very confident. He's probably shedding his pants. He's like, yeah, is it not sure what to expect. Well, you know, like all the answers were probably completely honest, which is great. um But I'm sitting there going, ooh, man, these guys.
00:29:18
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I'm sure we'll get into it later, but that was Connor Daly who was pissing down his leg. Pissed in the seat. He talked about it. Pissed his pants. Anyway.
00:29:30
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That's hilarious. All right. So what were your, what were for you, Bryce, the highlights of the race?
Post-Race Dinner & Celebrations
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Well, think the restarts and going four wide into turn one. And i never thought,
00:29:46
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In the Indy 500, I told Santino this after the race. I said, I've never said four wide into turn one at Indy and come out with no one crashing. And I said it twice.
00:29:58
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um Sometimes we ended up making passes on those four wide. and Or sometimes we just settled back in But you you the way these cars are set up, you you really had to get in front of people on that on those restarts.
00:30:14
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um Because then after that, it you you know, you you kind of just fell in line and then waited for someone to make a mistake. And i i know for a lot of the race, I mean, I watched the replay of it the last two days.
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And I actually, on TV, I think they did a good job. And it there were a lot more passes than what I than i recognized. Because remember, I'm focusing on just in front sure for the most part or or right on my car. But usually it's in front.
00:30:42
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and uh yeah just the way this formula is set up right now that you know i think as the beginning part of the race happened we thought okay malucas running an absolutely perfect race yeah so then i started just thinking man aj foy racing one two could this happen could this happen and at one point yep yeah at one point in the race we were one two and uh that was pretty fantastic and uh Yeah, I mean, just again, i said it after the race, you have to be absolutely so perfect to win that race.
00:31:14
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I mean, absolutely perfect, and you have to have good luck and hope bad luck hits other
Memorable Indianapolis 500 Stories
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people. i mean, I don't know how else was to describe it so So were you were you involved with Santino four wide ah at a certain point going into one?
00:31:29
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I mean, yeah it sounded like it was. So, okay. In in that situation, are you basically just like, ah cars everywhere, good luck? You're on your own. I mean, like like what, seriously, what can you tell him other than car low, car high, freaking figure it out?
00:31:48
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like like no I like the way you kind of ask that because in a way, it's in fact, I have a turn three spotter that says I'm a little too NASCAR because most IndyCar guys will say four wide. I say top of four because that way and he knows, oh oh, you know, oh shit, i'm I'm the top of four cars.
00:32:06
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And then it was top of four, top of three, inside, clear out the back, you know, coming back one, you know, and it's funny because my brother was listening also and he said, how, how are you saying that?
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And a lot of it is it does slow down from that high up. It is, I mean, obviously they're flying, but it is a little, i don't want to say slower, But from that vantage point, the cars, you do have a little bit more time to react, but you do have to be very precise.
00:32:35
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And fortunately, the spins were all behind us. And that's what I was focusing Excuse me. I was focusing on is ah if there was a spin in front of us and Santino and I even talked about it.
00:32:48
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I said, Hey, in this scenario with all these restarts, what do you want to hear? And he said, only say checkup if I'm going to get run over, otherwise find me a hole or Or where'' we'll just go for it.
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And but okay, you know, which that sounds pretty vague, but at the same time, then you're running through all the scenarios like okay if this were to happen if this were to happen um But he's so good at
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that track and I don't know if you guys saw the record but he is the most successful driver Ever in the history of the motor speedway for seven starts so I know a win is better always a win is better. Oh, yeah, but I You got to get there.
00:33:23
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yeah Yeah. And I don't care. I mean, you if you can figure out how to qualify in the right spot and come in the top 10 every time you walk through that place, that has to build a certain level of confidence.
00:33:40
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Yeah, there's no doubt. So let me read this to you guys. I got this. um Someone on Twitter or said, wrote this and he's at 500 indy 1911 109 indianapolis 500 it's 804 drivers have started the race only one has finished in the top 10 in their first seven starts and so these are the boxes santino's checked seven starts seven top tens four different teams plus 60 on positions gained plus 8.6 positions from the start
00:34:15
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And he's completed 1,400 of 1,400 laps. oh What? That's nuts. Yeah, he's finished yeah finish in the top 10. That's crazy. Those are impressive stats. The thing that jumps out to me the most there is with four different teams. Yeah.
00:34:30
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Because that's not like you you just – Like so some of the guys that came in later are more advanced in a career like Montoya, right? He was established F1 or I don't know.
00:34:41
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yeah Yeah. Like i said, I don't like that guy. So bad example for me, yeah but settles into Penske. That's established team, right? To do that with four different teams. That's, that's it's impressive. for us easy but Yeah. So he, he started out as a rookie with, um, I believe it was dry and rainbow or maybe it was get Dale coin he'll coin, maybe Dale coin.
00:35:02
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And then he went to Dreyer and Reinbold, and that's when Buddy Rice was calling his race, former winner. And then he went over to Ray Hall, and then he then he's been with us for the last three years. And, yeah, it's it's it's it's impressive. He is by far the most fun I have ever spotted for, without a doubt.
00:35:21
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And he just gets that place. And, you know, when you – so to You keep knocking on the door, eventually that that door's going to open. as I was going to say, there's different levels of top 10, though. So Dick Simon was in the top 10 a bunch, right? But but never – I mean, I'm serious, but but never you never thought that guy was like –
Connor Daly's Race Experience
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He never had a chance. He would start 22nd and work his way up to finish ninth or something like that.
00:35:46
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um You know, it's funny. You guys said Dick Simon and two dogs barked. I don't know what's up with that. got dicked Yeah. They got dicked again. That's right. But yeah, it was it it was just for for me now being a fan of of you, the team, and and that driver, it's just more fun. We're like, oh, there's lap 150.
00:36:10
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We just had a good restart or whatever that was there. You're like, hang on. we I think we just went plus three there. Let's go. so Suddenly, I'm we, right? I'm part of the team. We just went plus three. Yeah.
00:36:21
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that's awesome Well, my girl still swears that someday he'll be her husband. photo She's all about him. I'll say, Tom, based on something that you said Friday night when we were walking around, I don't think that's going to happen.
00:36:34
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Yeah. Anyhow. So he did talk about it. I'm sure you saw it at the victory. What are I going to talk about that? Bank talked about how crowded his RV was with the Great Dane in there and the other two dogs. Because you brought that up last week. The rescue. Yeah, the rescue dog and all that. Yeah, it was pretty cool to hear him talk about that.
00:36:53
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Yeah, just so just to lay behind the curtain a little bit on this, is so after Carb Day, um or no, I'm sorry, was that Carb Day or was that, I got to think about this. No, it wasn't Carb Day, last Monday. it was Pull Day. Sorry, I'm going to get this right eventually.
00:37:09
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He goes and gets a bunch of burgers and hot dogs, and in the driver's lot, he has all the crew members go over there and he cooks for us. and we sit on the back of his large pickup that you know chevy pickup that the team gives him uh or we just sit around there and it's basically his thank you to the crew uh for doing everything and it's just a nice time for us to cut back have a few beers and just kind of appreciate everything and uh Yeah, no, and so that's just something else just to kind of let you know what kind person he is. And think other drivers in the lot, I see sometimes they're looking over, either they're envious or they're thinking, why are you inviting all these people into our lot? mean, we're not there until wee hours.
00:37:54
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Yeah, we're not there until wee hours in the morning, but we are, you know, we're there until, you know, 8, 8.30, which is, and
Future Race Strategies
00:38:02
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that's That's another thing, guys. I forgot how late it stays, how light it stays there in Indiana. 9.15. Yeah.
00:38:09
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yeah so Hey, what's Santino drink? What's that? What does Santino drink, or does he? Yeah, he'll have a couple beers. you know I don't think he did this month.
00:38:19
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ah He's pretty focused. When it's during the season, you don't see partaking too much. That makes sense to me. Yeah, man, I'm telling you man, he's dialed in.
00:38:32
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And I think with both cars, the momentum, we just showed what we can do. And now it's a matter of saying, okay, the crown jewel got away from us, but we were right there in the hunt.
00:38:44
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How can we build on this for the rest of the season? And that's really now going to be the focus is saying, okay, how do we get through Detroit, get the car back on the transporter on all four wheels, try to get a top 10, uh, and just, and cause that, that race is tough. It hasn't been good to us.
00:39:01
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And, uh, you know, kind of go from there. I know it jumped ahead a little bit on the the questions, but that's what, that's where my mind is already. I think about the 500 for a couple of days and take it all in. And it takes a while to sink in. then I realized,
00:39:14
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Man, I just finished my 13th Indy 500. um My average finish with my drivers is 13.8. Wow. So it's it's improving. The last three years helped a lot. yeah Yeah.
00:39:26
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Anyway, so I'm going to go there. That impressive little chart you texted out earlier today. So, yeah. And I saw your post on social media about it, too. So good job for you, buddy. I'm going to put a little pressure back on you, Bryce, not because you guys ran strong and didn't win, but ah you have to know that there's a former guest of the show that won an Emmy.
00:39:50
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Oh, I forgot. This weekend. Well, I think I just kind of did, Tom. Yeah, i'm glad you brought that up. Can you rephrase that for me? No, you're doing fine. I totally forgot about it. but so what do so What are we talking about? You're going to have to win an Emmy or something, Bryce. Yeah.
00:40:05
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so Who won the Emmy? Okay, so um earlier this year, Ryan Cash, who it was a yeah he's sad but it a lot yeah statistician. year. Yeah.
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He's a statistician for the ah broadcast. Research. Track and field. He's a researcher. Track and field for Olympic broadcast. He is the son of Mike Cash, who's a friend of Bayars. We're going to give out Mike's address later. No, we're not.
00:40:35
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But Mike hung out with us. He's a Sagittarius. At the race. and And he told us while we were there, hey, you should know.
Emmy Win Celebration
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that uh ryan actually is going to win an emmy for or is for his for his his participation in the olympic broadcast that's pretty yeah cool so i sent ryan a text message and i said hey i just want to be the first to tell you from a solid four congratulations on the emmy thanks thanks for taking the yeah i was i wanted to be the first tom so it it went different for me his mom was like you know trying to figure out
00:41:09
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who everybody is. It's like, Oh, are you on the podcast? I'm like, uh, it depends. Yeah. What are you asking for? You want a sticker or something or a koozie? I'll give you a hat. Uh, no, I was, I was waiting for her to go.
00:41:27
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I listened once and you guys are completely garbage. You're a bunch of morons. So we can actually claim we've had Emmy award-winning guests on the show. Holy crap. Put that on the website. Let's update it now. We've also had a 500. By the way, I...
00:41:41
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I touched that thing like a month ago. You guys have to say shit. Reaching out. Touched with that. Jane, you. least touching ah I mean, Bryce also, though, a 500 winner. True that.
00:41:52
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and we So was we need to put that on website. We've had Emmy Award winning 500 winning team members. members A gentleman that wears a tag Hoyer also. oh my gosh. That's right.
00:42:07
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We've had watch sex. that waterproof? We did have watch sex. did have watch on the podcast. Bryce, do you wear that around the pool? I wear it in the pool because I'm going to spend this much money on it, it better be waterproof. It's very waterproof. I seriously did not know.
00:42:21
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To 1,500 meters, Brett. Of course. shits me to be yes Oh, my gosh. By the way, do you guys know how they know that? no no somebody had to try is Helen Keller involved here all right so your thoughts on the post-race what happens
00:42:44
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gosh wow i knew that was good wow ah all so your thoughts on ah the post- racece o cast question yeah oh so sure what what happens 200, lap 200 hits, right?
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Realize you didn't win. is Is there a, but not to be stupid, is there a moment you guys converse, right? What what happens there when you're like, good day, but?
00:43:10
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Yeah, well, I was ah congratulated Roger Yasekawa, who's below spotter in turn one. Oh, okay. Seriously. Okay. Sorry. I thought he's making a Godzilla joke. I thought something was going to happen. No, no, no.
00:43:25
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So, no, Roger, Roger, you know, he and I spotted together for Sato a few years ago. Uh, and he's awesome guy. And so I congratulated him and he's, He has that very typical, and I say say this with all due sincerity, or with with great sincerity, that he has that ah Japanese um humility.
00:43:45
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yeah And, you know, he was just like, and everyone, you know, he wasn't rah-rah. It was just, I could see the, you know, joy in his face and just happy for him. And then, yeah, I guess after that, you're just looking and saying, all right, I got to take a deep breath.
00:43:59
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Ooh, just finished one. You know, finish another 500 and then you start to look and I didn't even take off my equipment because first of all, it's just a pain in the ass.
00:44:10
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So I just said, you know, I'm leaving on my headset, my radios and I'm going to start loading stuff up. And then you just kind of start to walk down and you're in the trap and you're in the crowd with everybody and walk through the stands and and get down and see friends and family. Ran into you guys last year.
00:44:24
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You know, this year it was it was just didn't you just start walking back to the pits, you know, amongst all the fans and, you know, it's It doesn't really sink in until, you know, you get back to the garage and you realize, wow, at the time we thought we finished third and seventh.
00:44:40
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And, you know, Santino's car ah went away towards the end. And the car, he almost crashed in turn three. That's how Kirkwood got around us. And because i we were five, six clear him. So I thought, OK, if we hang on to sixth place, you know, that's good.
00:44:55
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And we we hang around the the former driver in the 14 car who didn't do us any favors a few years ago. So, i you know, it was one of those things where, hey, let's just stay in front of Kirkwood. And then... That didn't happen. And then you find out, you know, the next day, which that's a funny story. We, my girlfriend and i had the day to kind of just chill and had a little gathering. And then we drove all the way down to Bloomington.
00:45:20
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I showed her campus, drove back, and then we go to the shop and all of a sudden it goes, hey, we finished fifth. I go, are you talking about? And they said it hasn't been it hasn't been reported yet, but it's coming out that two Andretti's and Callum Ilots got to move to the end for more. you know They failed post-race tech.
00:45:40
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and And then my immediate thought was, what if Erickson would have won? Exactly. oh yeah i know exactly now I know. What would they done? yeah And i think I think what's going to happen from here on, and we talked about it, I think you're going to see well, and this includes our team, every team better make sure everything is by the book. Yep, right. Because I think we now know that an independent tech is highly sought after by, I think, the the media, the others. I don't know. I just think there's sure some –
00:46:20
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that an independent an independent officiating body would would probably at least eliminate the, don't know what you call it, the suspicion. The suspicion, the question. cloud of suspicion. Yeah, the cloud of suspicion over, well, this team gets special you know special treatment and preferential treatment.
00:46:43
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But, yeah, I think you have to do that. So I think you're going to see for the rest of the year, i think you're going to see more cars with some penalties. um yeah Like I said, I just hope we mind our P's and Q's and just keep moving forward.
00:46:57
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I will tell you, though, there's no way the drivers knew. I mean, there's no way they knew. Really? I don't think. I there i don't think. You're not going to be in those meetings. I just, in my heart of hearts, I'm in every engineer strategy meeting before a race.
00:47:12
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And unless something is so hush-hush, but that was pretty far out in the open. And, again, if you're going to fail tech, I mean, after the rest yeah i don't know. I mean, I think it's, again, it's just another thing that's embarrassing. It's a black eye. Yeah. You, you, you talked about that last week with the Penske thing, the the previous Sunday, you said how that is such a black guy and how you felt embarrassed and how you felt about it.
00:47:36
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And then, you know, here comes race day. And it was literally damn near 24 hours after the race that they announced this. I mean, that's, that's a huge black eye to me, egg on the face of Penske of, of everybody that's running that thing. I mean, that's, I won't say a joke, a joke is too strong, but that that's, that's, that's not, that's bad business, bad business.
00:48:03
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Well, Yeah, it is. And and the the good thing about it is the but race was still a sellout. Over 8 million people at one time were watching the race. So that that tells me that they that didn't make them tune out.
00:48:19
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um So and again watching the replay of the race and really just honing in on how the battle the broadcast was. I mean I didn't even know Tony Stewart was there honestly and he's awesome by the way. I think i when Tony was describing just real quick as he was describing you know what Kyle Larson may go through and he says well when you're driving one of these cars it's like turning a tennis ball And then when you're driving one of the the cup cars, you're you're you're turning a bowling ball.
00:48:48
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And I thought, what a great analogy. You know, I mean, if you really think about it, like that was pretty cool to hear. And again, I heard that in the watching the replay the race. um But no, I think all in all, I mean, they got to walk away and say, OK, we have momentum.
00:49:03
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But that's all it is, is momentum. And a couple of people on my plane back here to Phoenix said, asked me and say, you know, where do you go from here? And I said, well, we need another engine manufacturer. That's just my thought.
00:49:14
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And I said, um and we need a new chassis. I said, because this one also qualifies as a vintage. um As I said to you guys last week. So there, it's all right there. it's ah It's all there for the taking. I think Doug Bowles is incredible. I think Mark Miles, you know, is, is, and can get some stuff done, but they've got to take advantage of this momentum and not lose it.
00:49:37
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right So going back to Santino, the last stint, so he he pitted with, what, like 35 laps-ish to go. um what and And for the four of us at this table and many other people.
00:49:54
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In the thousands listening. Sitting, sitting watching, specifically going, oh, okay, Santino, I think he came out in maybe fifth, fourth or fifth.
00:50:05
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out of that pit stop. And then as I was watching him, I didn't know if maybe he had a bad set of tires or something was going on with the car or what, but he wasn't dropping like a rock, but he was kind of steadily, you know, you go, Oh shit. He he he wasn't where he was before. He was fifth. Now he's sixth. So I think must've been fourth. Cause I think he lost two or three spots in that last set of tires till the end of the race.
00:50:31
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Yeah. Like what, like was it the tires or like what, what happened there? Well, we had a somewhat of a slow pit stop there at the end. And that is one thing that I, if I want to critique Fox on something, is you were showing basically the top six cars pit, and then you broke away from him and didn't say...
00:50:51
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Hey, you know, either, and again, I don't know if it was ah as a fuel issue or disconnecting or if it was just a slow stop. I mean, the guys killed it all day. i mean, the guys were so good all day, the four car and the 14 car.
00:51:04
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So, um yeah, that the last stop was just a little slower because i noticed where, you know, below came around or came out and he was quite a bit ahead of us. And i mean, I see it in turn one and, you know, I'm watching it with my you know binoculars.
00:51:19
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And I do see that there is a little bit of a stumble. And in this when I say a little bit of a stumble, if it's one or two seconds, sure that yeah that's enough. yep And what really caught me out, though, is I had no idea Erickson was in the hunt.
00:51:32
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I had absolutely no idea. He was very quiet. with but Yeah, well, you're focused on what's around you. And earlier in the race, we blew by him like he was standing still.
00:51:43
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And I thought, okay, Andretti cars don't have it. And I should know better than that because it's so early in the race. and And, you know, and then they'll find out later they were making the car better and better and then illegal. um So good. They were illegal. Yeah. Yeah. So, but you know, I look at it and say, okay,
00:52:01
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It just goes to show you, and and I talked to a couple of spotters afterward, one of my really good friends, Brandon Dixon, who his uncle, if you guys remember Larry Dixon, the sprint car legend. Yes, and the voice. So the the old Larry and Gary, as they used to call it.
00:52:19
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And so anyway, so Brandon has won with Castroneves before, and so he's spotting for Elio there. And at one point, we're running seventh, and I think he's running eighth or or one of the two.
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And i see with one lap to go, Castroneves pit. And asked Brandon after the race, we we went, I got his camper for a little bit and had a few beers. And I said, Hey, what, what, what happened to you guys? They said, we miscalculated by one lap. ah And I'm thinking, Oh, you gotta be kidding me. And so when you pit on lap 30 or 32 laps to thirty at thirty two laps to go I mean, to me, again, I'm not an engineer, but to me, run a certain fuel mixture until you know you can go full rich. but to To tie it that tight, and when you're running eighth or ninth, what was the purpose? You weren't going to win. Right. um so you beenm pretty sure them
00:53:06
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I'm pretty sure the guys on the radio, they mentioned Erickson before the final pit stops. I'm pretty sure. yeah him Him and like two other two or two or three other people, they were pretty much on it because... ah they mentioned that the the way they were running and and fuel mileage and blah, blah, blah.
00:53:24
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ah they They were like, you these are the two or three guys you need to watch out for before even the final pit stops because they're going to be ah up in the front. so So the the the worst with fuel mileage was obviously ah r h r And what what happened to him, Bryce? he he He ran out of gas and then they couldn't, what I heard him say, they couldn't reprime fuel.
00:53:49
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whatever it is. Yeah, they they couldn't get it started, and then they tried to do the hybrid restart, which which is complicated. It's it's extremely difficult to to do that. Push it down the hill. The reason I know that. Pop the clutch. Yeah, yeah like like well, <unk> it's a whole sequence. And so the reason I know that is last year during one of the practice sessions in Portland, Santino spun off course,
00:54:17
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And I was giving him track positions on where people were so then he could get going. And afterward, he goes, hey, man, he goes, you're going to have to give me a little time now to do that. And I go, what? ah You know, this is all new. what's What's going on? He goes, with the hybrid, I have to get and the order of sequence from the pit box.
00:54:34
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And I couldn't hear him because you were giving me, you know, where people were so we don't run out. And I go, dude, I'm sorry. and He goes, no, no, it's not your fault. We didn't know. None of us knew this. I said, OK. You're going to have to now tell me, you know, and again, this is on a road course, but you're rolling and then I can tell you where the traffic is. So I'll have to delay a little bit to make sure if he is stalled, that's what, you know, they have that time to be able to talk to the ah race strategist on how to order that order of sequence.
00:55:00
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and But again, Dryan Reinbold only races one time a year. i hope to God they become a full-time team. They are too good not to. yeah So what is the strategist doing? Do they have like a list of instructions there? Like why can't Santino just remember that?
00:55:15
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well Well, he could, but if you don't remember the hybrids in his first year, I mean, there' there's a lot of things that you just don't know. So yeah. So I think once they couldn't get it started and um and it was neat seeing Hunter Ray run up front and the guy I won with Hunter Ray, ah Frank Bolton is still his spotter and, you know, and he was gutted and, you know, again, that, that place will just rip your heart out. yeah You know,
00:55:42
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but He's a caution away from winning. Sometimes you don't want to – and I don't ever want this to happen, but sometimes it's almost a better feeling to go out on lap 10 or 30 with something mechanical than something like that with 20 laps to go where you can – You have a chance.
00:56:00
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You have a chance, and then when it goes away, it's just it's gutting, guys. I mean, it is absolutely gutting. you're saying have a chance. saying Yeah, that's right. In Vision Quest terms, Jeff – That's right. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No. Hell no.
00:56:16
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And it ain't over now. Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? In Vision Quest terms, it's better to get tech fall than losing the state tournament by two or three points. There you go. Oh, that makes total sense now. yeah the Now you know.
00:56:27
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Yeah, now I know. sos And local, talking about up front, local guy Connor Daly yeah was up there quite a few laps. um About, what, three quarters the way through the race or so? He's a fun guy, isn't he?
00:56:41
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he's He's a mushroom? He's a fungus? Yeah. but okay Speaking of which, did you know he did a Hoosier lottery commercial and they filmed it at the convenience store next door to Rookies?
00:56:53
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Because you sayie you see Rookies in the background and he's like, I got my lottery tickets. They filmed it as Ted could notice that. Current wife sent it to me because it was on Instagram. She's like,
00:57:04
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That's rookies in the background. What the hell is that? That's awesome. They filmed it at that piece of shit, the gas station, going right next door. Yeah, they filmed him going in, getting these lottery tickets, coming back out to his car, doing the promo, whatever. Brand new speedway. No, no, no. no no no was ah Was Randy Whitman in the background? No. There were like four people back out in the background smoking. Hang on. Actually – Actually, serious question.
00:57:30
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ah Was that Don, Cheryl, and Tommy? Probably. so Serious question. Did you see Jeff in the background? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or Brett? No. but Okay, I got it. No, they were at the front door, so wouldn't have seen Brett. I heard that Silver Express is one of the top five selling lottery tickets. I believe it. Places in the state.
00:57:47
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Yeah. That's good. They sell a shit ton of them. So, interesting real quick question, Bryce. Side note. Do you go to the victory dinner at all? Who? I only go if I win. I do always bring a jacket just in case, but no, we, uh, our girlfriend and I were just back at the Weston and, uh, we just watched it on TV. gotcha So Tom and Brett, I just sent you guys a picture of, uh, one of our, our spotters has a really good time of making new sponsors on cars. So if you blow up Connor Daly's car on the picture, I just sent you, you guys will get a kick out of the the side box.
00:58:23
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ah That is hilarious. Feel free to pass that around. That's a good shot. We're going to put that on the website. We'll put that on the website for sure. Yeah. That's hilarious. I couldn't see it. That's funny. Who just asked that question?
00:58:41
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What's that? I have another one. yeah Your buddy Roger the spotter. Yeah. ah Is he afraid of Godzilla? Yasukawa? I gotcha.
00:58:56
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For whatever reason. yeah yeah we We used to make a joke back when I worked at the Speedway when it was happy hour. For whatever reason, we every time they said, and it's happy hour, it's the last hour of the day of practice.
00:59:11
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We would make a joke and say it's happy hour with Roger Yasakawa back when he was driving his cars for whatever. Trying to doctorize it up a little So when he mentioned Yasakawa's name, I was like, oh, shit, here comes a joke.
00:59:26
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And he he was like, no, he's just a spotter of the team who actually won. wonder why your eyes lit up kind of when he said that. I was like, oh, this is going to be hilarious. Bryce and Luke rehearsed something. Yeah, we did.
00:59:37
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No, no. and and And he's in the managing group with Alex. So he spotted him when he's way over in ah in in Spain coming up through the ranks. So I think he's done well for himself.
00:59:48
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Heck yeah. Heck yeah. Yeah. But, no, you what's really funny about that on on practice days, and I'll just share, is, you know, I know they try to get more people to stick around, buy some more beers and and what have you during happy hour, but the teams are like, let's just pack up and go.
01:00:05
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Because we're not going to learn anything in this last hour. You know, you're not most likely you're not going to run that last hour at all unless you're just you're just, you know, trying a different wing angle or, you know, your conditions aren't going to be like they normally are in race time. Although nowadays, maybe that's not true. I think years ago, though, there were teams that as they're trying to figure everything out for the month that were probably.
01:00:31
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ah Kind of up against the eight ball trying to figure out just that one little thing, but that's not been a thing for Yeah, that's weird a long time. Yeah. Yeah Well and in Penske was always adamant. I'm not running in happy hour and in fact I even one of the guys on the team that's been around a while I said hey were you on the push rod engine in 94 the you know and he goes oh yeah the beast He says, I was on Paul Tracy's car and I looked at him and said, you ran in happy hour.
01:00:56
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He goes, oh my God, you know about that story. I go, yep. and And Roger ripped him new ass because Roger was adding it back in the day. You do not run during happy hour. So doesn't each driver that runs the fastest per day in practice get, doesn't the team get a little bit of money?
01:01:12
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Used to, that's gone. Oh, that's gone away now? Yeah, that's long gone. Okay. Yeah. and what was What was the old thing? Link will know this. What was the, if you got your car towed out the pit lane on one of those tractors, you also got money.
01:01:27
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remember you guys do you remember that, Link? Uh, sounds a little familiar. They used to, they used actually tell like at the victory banquet, they used to tell all the, I don't know why they all still do that.
01:01:41
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They just kind of throw, I think they're trying to move it along now. Jeff, did you need to say something before you go piss? Jeff Daly on on the microphone. The other thing about the, um, the victory but banquet, they did not announce, and I don't remember they did it last year, they did not announce the purse for each driver until they got to... was thinking they did it last year.
01:02:01
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Yeah, they did. No, they haven't done that couple years. Oh, really? They haven't done that a couple... Yeah. Okay. Because I talked about... money if You guys watched it, man. Takuma went on and on. Oh, yeah. He was good. He was good. Yeah.
01:02:15
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That dude... He's funny. I don't know anything about driving. i can't imagine... driving with a broken rib so he talked about that he got a shot in the medical center little cortisone uh no uh viagra started with a t paderall something it was a painkiller definitely not you're supposed to you're only supposed to have he said you're only she said you should only take one every five days and he's like i was taking one every day okay
01:02:47
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I couldn't imagine driving an IndyCar with a broken rib as tight as you're in there. and i Apparently, and the G-Forces going around the turn. They were praising praising Dr. Susan at the medical center because ah ti she saw she she hopped him up on whatever he needed. He didn't feel like he was getting the shit beat out of bad to look at, I'll tell you. She's not bad to look at. There you go. hang on and Ed Carpenter married somebody used to work over in the...
01:03:14
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ah Now the IU med center in the infield. There you go. All right. Yeah. So to the stat. Oh, sorry, Jeff. Go ahead. I do have one more question. You have to pee. I know I do have to pee. very bad apparently. Rubber band around that thing right now. to Bryce for another 50, 49 weeks. We don't know that. had his headphones off. He might be on next week again. You don't know that. Detroit. He's a correspondent. There might be a report from Detroit. We're going to Wednesday weekly recap. There you go. One top of an IndyCar. Did you call it Detroit? Detroit.
01:03:43
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It's Detroit. Louisville and Detroit. Shut the fuck up. Detroit, right in city. So why did it take so long until 2 o'clock on Monday keep hitting the table to announce the they're moving those drivers back?
01:03:59
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I mean, Doug Bowles is a lawyer, and i think you've got to do your due diligence and finally notify the teams, see if they have a response. I mean, I think that's just – they that They didn't, I think they wanted to be smart about it and say, okay, there's what we're doing.
01:04:13
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These infractions were large enough that gave the cars an advantage well We're moving them to the back. I mean, that's I'm speculating there, but that makes sense. and Probably some level of precedent there too, right, for this season? Yeah, I mean, I go back to 1981 when I was the ripe old age of of nine.
01:04:32
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Mario, ouch. When ah Bobby Unzer and and Mario, you know, I mean, Mario was the one that got his picture taken all the next day, and Bobby wasn't declared the winner until that fall.
01:04:43
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you know, of the race. yep And then subsequently retired, never raced again. it's like, yeah, that's a good way to go out. Oh, didn't realize that. But for gambling purposes.
01:04:54
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Oh, yeah. Good luck with that. that's right to Yeah. You don't know anything about that, Bryce. I'm sorry. no, no. no no We'll talk about that next week. Jeff, you can go pee because I'm going to read some stats about the race that were not on the broadcast. But before you get to that, I do want to ask Bryce, do you, I mean,
01:05:12
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since you've been spotting have you do you remember not necessarily an Indy 500 but any other race where there has been this much of cars moving because of failing inspections no whether it's practice I mean ah yeah qualifying or racing kicked out of that it just seems like that I mean yeah I mean that's that's a kind of ah almost a almost an anomaly in modern day right is i Yeah, I 100% agree. there's I have never seen, i mean, this is a page right out of NASCAR's book, you know, or um who fails CAC and, you know, and, you know, I guess the good thing about those Andretti race strategists that they don't have to go to Detroit next week. So, you know, got like a week off. but No, i know I've never seen this, but.
01:06:04
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Hey, guys, I do have to run because my dinner is ready. Oh, nice. What are you eating? Nachos and pizza. We are actually making some homemade pizza. Okay, nice. On the grill?
01:06:16
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uh on the wood fire yeah oh there you go oh you got you got the fancy outdoor stuff huh no i don't know i'm at my cousin's house talkter guys i'd make peasant income tell uh tell tell cousins cam and chris we said hi hi pretty sure that was their names that's right okay there you go so bryce thanks for all your input it's So Cam, Chris, and Karen, they all said hello and thank you.
01:06:43
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ah They can yell it into your phone. Hi. Nice. Hey, thank thanks for the time, man. Be safe. Appreciate it, Bryce. Enjoy it every year. Talk to you soon. All right. See you. So my stats here. I was going to i was going to ah ask him a couple things, or make ah make comments. um Speaking of the penalties, the pre-race penalties, so the two Penske guys, I mean, how frigging Newgarden and Will Power before you knew it were Newgarden definitely was in the top 10. He was in contention. I think Will Power was ah for a couple stints there. And then ah he he had a ah some something.
01:07:25
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he He described it ah as ah that was a new one on us. He said there's a some pressure, some fuel pressure gauge or whatever. The only other thing I wanted to ask Bryce is, did he have any like, oh shit moments in this this year's race?
01:07:39
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That was the one thing I had in my brain. i just hadn't asked him yet. Right. You go, was there um ever a moment that in this race where you're like, oh, crap ah
Race Day Excitement & Beer Consumption
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type of thing. right I think we've I've asked him that before. and And that could probably go both ways, right? Like, oh oh, shit, in a bad way? And like, oh, shit, we're in the top three. Oh, shit. Ten laps. Oh, wow. Hell, yeah. All right, Bryce, I got one more question. He had to go. Oh, shit. Oh, I didn't know. You were in the pisser.
01:08:04
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Oh, shit. Oh, shit. was an oh, shit moment for Jeff. So anyway. Okay, so here's some stats for you. Okay. Because I'm so good with numbers. War Ben Davis math. I don't know how they even measure this or get a guesstimate or I don't know how they come up with this number.
01:08:21
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Two inches at a one hundred and forty five 145 gallons of beer. Oh, yeah. Consumed race day. Race day. Hang on. That's not.
01:08:33
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That doesn't sound like a lot. Okay. im like Let me put it in these terms for you. One million.
01:08:41
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540, I'll say 1,550,000 beers. And you still sit there and go oh, shit that probably isn't that much, right? Times 12 ounces. 350,000 or people. That's over four beers per person.
01:08:56
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and And while you include kids. Kids. Right, you include. yeah Everybody with a ticket. People that get, like, I didn't have a beer at the track Sunday. ah had hungover from Saturday. or No, that's another story. oh that's That's a, that's a, different that's a fifth beer thought. thanks So too, but just perspective there, though right? That's crazy. Everybody that walks in that building is drinking four and a half beers.
01:09:24
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Average, average. yeah and And the people that can drink beer are making up for the people that can't drink beer. Gallons just doesn't sound like – don't even know what a gallon is. Again, it's a gallon of milk. I understand. That's the plastic jug.
01:09:37
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I said the same thing. Well, like 145,000, that doesn't seem like – I actually think that's what I drank on Carb Day. Sure. It feels a lot like Carb Day. It's still 145,000 though.
01:09:48
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gallons but I mean, now, now, how many gallons? 145,000. That's half a gallon per person. 145,000. Just rough math. That's half a gallon per person.
01:10:02
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I thought you said 145 gallons. That's what I thought you said. I might have. Yeah, that what you said. That's what I might have. That makes more sense. 145,000 gallons. That makes a thousand times more sense.
01:10:15
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That's like enough milk jugs to just the whole infield. Think about it. At least 10 times more. least 10,000 times more since, guys. Anybody? At least. So, I don't know. I found that interesting. That's it? Were those only stats you had?
01:10:27
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Well, that was stat wanted talk about. actually wanted to bring up the Pacers.
Pacers Playoff Performance
01:10:31
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Ah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have not talked about them. I know, and probably negligent on us, we don't watch the and NBA. I think the NBA is horrible still, by the way. I do, too. I've watched every playoff game, though. Me, too. ah A Pacer playoff game. I've actually watched more basketball the last two weeks than I think I've watched in the last 10 years.
01:10:46
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The combination, there's just something about this time of year, the combination when the race is going and the Pacers are in contention, because it hasn't happened really. It happened last year, although the team was new and nobody's really – It's like the best sporting scenario you can ever get in a city. The epicenter.
01:11:06
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Yeah. And it was the epicenter. Yeah, it was is awesome. Amazing stat is the Pacers are oh and four on race day in the playoffs.
01:11:17
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Oh, really? They only never work at home. Yes. What a long day. Speaking of pissing down your leg. Yeah, I'm kidding. Here's what I thought about watching the Pacer game that night.
01:11:29
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I was half asleep watching that Pacer game. I can't imagine having to then go down to after spending all day at the track. Going and get stuck in traffic. Getting up early.
01:11:40
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yeah Getting up early, stuck in traffic, trying to get to your fucking spot. Drinking 145,000 gallons beer. thousand thousand gallons of beer and then making your way downtown and going and cheering on the pacers are of who lost four hour game that game but but still it's a long ass day my day was long enough yeah i can't imagine having i was like yeah i don't know if i could have gone to a pacer game and sat in the stands and and cheered I know I couldn't because I fell asleep at like halftime.
01:12:13
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but ah Probably great for the first quarter because you had the hype and the energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then yeah it started out hot. Oh, hang on. It's been a long day. The local radio talk show hosts the next day were like,
01:12:27
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That was a dead crowd on Sunday. the Pacer game, it was a dead crowd. It was, you know, they weren't pumped up. They weren't at the beginning because we got up to those. We're up 20 points. Yeah, exactly. The crowd was going crazy right before half. Yeah, that game was, how do you lose that game? It doesn't matter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Pacers have won so many games like that in the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:12:48
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and then last night's game was freaking
Halliburton's Playoff Leadership
01:12:51
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phenomenal. And Halliburton. Oh, Jesus. That's a stat. Hell yeah. right there Nobody's ever done it playoffs before. Ever. What he did.
01:13:01
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Ever. What he did last night. Think about all the great players. I named off like five or six of them today at work. Walter Payton. I yeah i was like, just i mean all the great NBA players oh who have played.
01:13:13
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And by the way, I keep reminding people, Pete Rose Halliburton was named the, uh, the, by his own, The least his own most overrated. OK, but still, we don't care. i don't care. matter I don't care if two people voted on it. Right. They still voted him the most overrated player in the NBA. Some of that's personal, right? like You got to take it personally. Because he made the Olympic team and that pissed some players off. But there were literally only 11 people.
01:13:44
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that they know they vote We talked about that couple weeks ago, but I'm just saying he still has the title. So you got to take it personal, right? Vote him that next year. yeah That's what I said. i' embrace that I've said it twice during his playofffront twice during this run. I was like, thank you for voting him. Here's what I thought was great.
01:14:03
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here's what i thought was great He needs more offense, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. He needs to be more aggressive. I thought it was great. Hal Burton is like, I felt completely responsible for the game
NBA Playoffs: Behaviors & Reactions
01:14:14
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three collapse. Yeah.
01:14:15
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That's leadership. He wears it on our shoulders. He does. How about Madden last night? I tell you what. 12 minutes, 20 points. He pissed me off in game three. He can go a little Ron Artest on you.
01:14:28
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yeah yeah He can go Ron Artest on you. But that's good. He had a moment last night. he's got a world-based moment on the scoring table. and I don't mind that. i mean Look at Carl Anthony Towns, one of the best players on the Knicks.
01:14:43
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When he grabbed what's his name? Miles Turner. like what the fucker and the and Even the announcers were like, what the hell is Charles Barkley? He's like, that guy makes the dumbest fouls. And here's why people can't don't like watching the NBA.
01:14:57
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Because as soon as they blew the whistle called that foul, the first thing he fucking did was turn the refs and what the hell did I do? Oh, really? I'm like, can you please stop? almost makes it unwatchable. Can you stop?
01:15:09
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I'm not going to kid you. Soap opera-ish behavior. I watched hockey until the final four minutes. i was kind of keeping update on the score on my phone. Hockey to me is just so much better. yeah ah so love perverse yeah Because you you grab somebody's arm in hockey, you're going to get got the next couple trips down down the ice.
01:15:26
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Maybe they should institute a like a power play system in the NBA. You go out for a shot clock if you get in a fight or you're some stupid. yeah there you go You go five on four for a shot clock. Interesting. that Commissioner in the making.
01:15:41
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We're bringing sexy back to the and NBA. The stupidest rule in the NBA is you, you've got a challenge. You got two challenges. If, if, if you use it and when you lose that challenge, if you use it again and when you lose that challenge, what, what kind of sense what is, is it yes, but you only get two challenges and you lose them no matter if you win or lose.
01:16:04
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it's It's a dumbass I know this because I was on the way home from fundraising last night and heard this on the radio. The Pacers challenged something like three minutes into the game. Yes, they did. Yes. yeah yeah Who does that, man? Carlisle's not a big challenger. like who's Who cares? Because at that point, what's a possession three minutes into the game? Yeah, exactly. Let that them have the ball just that once. Who gives a shit?
01:16:25
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Right. But I tell you what, man, Pacers are there. I, again, legit i said, as soon as they clinch a playoff spot, I was like, this he said i've said that last I would not want to play this team. that This team scares.
01:16:39
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If I was any other team, this team would scare the living crap out of me. It's a different person yeah every night. That's what's yeahas that's what's dangerous. Two different interviews. I've never been 17, Jeff.
01:16:53
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two different reviews around i've seen with pascal siakam okay i'll try that tonight the one time when he scored whatever 32 or 28 or something like that they interviewed me he's like i don't know maybe maybe next game it'll be somebody else he goes that's the thing about this team he goes that's why i love this team it could be anybody else and nobody cares yeah right yeah and and he said it again there's no personalities that you got to fight with last night or the night holard burn a game before that same thing he's like i just nobody cares nobody cares holly burton said last night after the game he goes you're just making up stats now he goes you know what we're a team he goes i don't care about no kidding that's awesome oh yeah that's gotta be she and insane twice yeah interviewed by tnt after the game and and and uh charles barkley goes
01:17:42
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Dude, if they just ran plays for you, you'd score 25 a night. You'd score 25 a night. And Siakam goes, we're not about that. but He goes, we're not about that. We are a team. That's nice. Same interview. They also asked him, ah compare this team with a championship Toronto team that you were on.
01:17:58
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And he was like, ah this team is is, he didn't say it's way better. like yeah I mean, he had to be a little politically correct. But he basically was like, yeah, this is more of a team. Yeah.
01:18:10
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And again, I think that's when he went down there road and they actually he he got done there in one of them on the panel goes that that was a great answer. Yeah. So I think it's Ernie. They're exciting. They're exciting to watch. They're fun to watch.
01:18:22
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And like you, Tom, I don't watch NBA basketball. I did not watch a single Pacer game this season until the playoffs started. But I quit watching because of all the same reasons everybody else gets tired of it. There's there's one or saw there's one or two really good players, and it's like it's almost like watching the Harlem Globetrotters if there's just two players, right? yeah And that that's...
01:18:45
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It's all got to be about this guy or that. It's got to be about LeBron. It's got to be about whoever the the guy is. It's always about LeBron. and And for the Pacers, it's not that. And that's why it is enjoyable to watch. That is what made me enjoy basketball back in the day.
01:19:03
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Because you used to have whole teams, there were stars, but it wasn't like a spotlight was always on them and it was only about them. And that's what the Pacers are. They're deep. They've got a deep bench.
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And their bench is Last night they were talking about it with all the fouls in the third quarter. They're like, nobody seemed really worried about it. Yeah. yeah Didn't care. Didn't matter. Oh, put another guy in. Yeah. Put another guy in. Because it's always, they they've just got so much team, and they run and run and run. And when when when they stopped running at the end of the third, beginning of the fourth, is when the Knicks came on. Started coming back.
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And then Carlisle said, I heard him earlier this week on on local radio talk show. He said, I've got to constantly tell them to run, run, run. He said, these are professional athletes. I get that. He said, but sometimes, you know, you got to constantly yell at them to run.
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when run, when they run I won't say unbeatable, but yeah. They're a hell of a lot better. Their half-court offense is terrible. It's awful. It is terrible. The Knicks have tried to play more people on their bench the last couple games, and you can tell.
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They're dog-ass tired. They get out there and they're lost, it's all that time and and they're just they're not as good. right and And they play five or six minutes, and then they put them back on the bench. But the first two games, the first game they played seven guys.
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The Knicks did. The Pacers played, I think, 12. Yeah. Right. Or 13 that game. So, anyway. they Yeah. And the Knicks have tried to put out new guys. I'm like, who the hell is that guy?
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I've not seen him all series. Right. And then here he is and but whatever. is why you haven't seen let's not fuck around, let's get the win tomorrow night yeah in the garden. yeah You don't want to come back here because anything can happen after that. yeah you know So yeah, they they things are looking good
Pacers Support for Firefighter
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for them. Yeah, for sure.
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And on ah on a way from the game perspective, just to talk about the Pacers a little bit, the uh did you see the new york uh firefighter who was yes who was a pacer fan and was at the at the knicks game and just got bashed by the knicks fans yeah tra thrown that trash thrown at him and everything else yeah a pace i sure on had a pacer jersey of the eyes yeah like hates fans i hate them and they so the pacers brought him to indy nice gave him uh gave him a day um flew him in got ah got a big thing downtown with the fire department have the pacemates and get on them
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That's awesome. I mean, the kid, he was like, he was like a kid at Christmas. Yeah. Right. And how many NBA teams are going to go out of their way to really, to really acknowledge that during the playoffs, pretty much the most important part of the playoffs.
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and And to take time out to say, hey, we got a fan somewhere that doesn't live here. So let's do something special for him because because his own city treated him like shit. yeah And i think I thought that was fucking awesome. yeah That's cool.
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hey Hey, Ben Stiller, stay the hell in New York. yeah jar keep Keep the hell out of Indy. and We don't need you here. i like Who was that other dude there? Chalamet Calamay? Timothy Chalamet. played in the movie.
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Yeah. Everybody was there. there They through all the stars that were there. Yes. Do we want to talk about the WNBA?
Angel Reese Allegations & Investigation
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At all? And what went down this week? The racist Pacer fan? I don't know when. No, the racist Fever fans. She got injured, didn't she? Yeah, she's up for two weeks. Okay. What are you talking about? So you did not hear when they played the Chicago Sky two weeks ago, Angel Reese after the game that was here in Indy.
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said that there were racist remarks made towards her when she was at the free throw line. So every yeah ESPN, every major sports network. Yep.
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Goes searching for it. Calls us. Racist. Yes. There are a bunch of racist fans that, you know, this happens all the time, bla blah, blah, blah. Well, coincidentally, the WNBA drops yesterday, an hour before the Pacers game,
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They found no factual proof of any statement. I was going to say, there's microphones everywhere. Phones, camera phones, everything. yeah WNBA came out said, we found no proof of this. Yep.
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Yet to apologize. The Chicago Sky has not apologized. Angel Reese has not apologized. She's bitch. She won't. She's a She's a fucking con. I was going say, yeah. See you next Tuesday. See you next Tuesday.
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I didn't finish the word. But what what the fuck you do in WNBA? what what What are you doing? It's going to go on. It's not going to stop. This is your goal. Here's what I think it does. This year's draft class has another few versions of Caitlin Clark. Not saying. Sure. you But.
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There's some studs that came in with this draft class. Angel Reese being afterthought in a couple years. Well, we we we talked about this, I think, on previous shows. Why they hate Caitlin Clark. ye the First and foremost, well, I think you can group them all in one bag. All three of them.
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She's white, she's not a lesbian, and she's a hell of a basketball player. Jeff, can you prove she's not lesbian? That she's not white? That she's not white? That's... But yeah, it's it it's fucked up. It it amazes me that a that a league that has not made money in the last 30 effing years now has their golden calf and they're trying to kill it. still They are trying to kill it. It's biblical.
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and And now they're trying to milk it. and and well And I mean, in reality, it becomes a situation where it becomes a situation where at the end i got a tits can you milk me greg tea at the end of her contract you have a height is she tired of it is she like i don't want to fight this fight anymore WWF yeah so she'll just be you know why do I want to put up I'm guessing on and on and on I'm guessing if so I I have been to many patient games and um there was one time towards anything oh your your battery ran out but no I turned it off
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and So so ah you can, we're in the four and a half hour. You can anonymously send a text. If there's a language around your seats.
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I didn't know this. Oh, ah Yes. To security or whatever. yeah Yes. And so security came down, said something to dode a dude couple rows above us who who was... He was drunk, but he wasn't like belligerent drunk.
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He said words every once a while, whatever. f this, so that calls, bullshit, whatever. So security comes down and goes, hey, man, hey, ah you're going to have to clean it up. or we're And so then he starts talking to the guy in front of him who's behind us.
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And I hear the whole entire thing. goes... Hey man, ah hey why did why'd you why'd you call security on me? Or why'd you why'd you tell him? And the guy was like, he ignored him for a while. and then all of sudden turned and goes, hey, you just need to stop.
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It wasn't me, okay? Just freaking stop. So next thing I know, it's towards the end of the game, some seats cleared out. And I see a guy ah in a suit and a tie.
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And hes i I know he's got an earpiece in. And he's sitting one row in a few seats behind the belligerent guy. And the guy one more time said something about that. That calls effing horseshit, whatever. And the guy, and the guy, he immediately goes, Hey, you, you, you're, you're out.
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you You're good. You're good. What did I do? What, whatever, whatever. yeah So. My point to all this, if there was some kind of racist comment or something that was said, but there's going to be enough people in the crowd or somewhere that's going to go, hey, man, hey, why don't you pipe down? That's not what we're all about. I agree that. Somebody's going to hear it. Somebody on the – if she heard it, other – oh yeah fever players heard it absolutely like was a sold out statement why don't you hey let's let's everybody settle down i don't know if somebody's sitting by me and drops the inbomb like that that i i'm not saying i would go of control like but i'd be like d man 20 other people would though 20 other people would though between the group around there it might be like
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it I mean, come on. Dude, come on. Like, what are you doing? she She said that they were making ape sounds while she was at the free throw line. Maybe they were just making noise to throw her off for a free throw. Exactly. It's such horseshit. i the The WNBA... She's looking for something. Yeah. The WNBA better figure it out because they are going to...
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There was nobody, and we can all admit to this, there was nobody watching that shit no two years ago. Never seen a WNBA game, even when the Fever won the championship, yeah what, 10 years ago, whenever it was, when ah Tamika was here. yeah They better figure it out, or it's going to kill the whole... They've got a chance. They've got a chance. To build on something. And they're going to shit the bed.
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Absolutely shit the bed. All right, Brett, you got a joke of the week?
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I think I slept through it, so I do not. Okay.
Alaska Redneck Joke & Episode Wrap-Up
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Well, then I guess I won't do that. But I do. But I do. Second verse.
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Same as the first. Can I get a... Can I get some thinking beverage? like get a don b can i guess i'm thinking bever d d de d so what the fuck is going joke joke brought to you by the masturbation twins the stroke doesn't go that slow wow all right
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Wow. All right. So joke of the week comes to us from Utah, Nevada, in Alaska. who Oh, Tom. Oh, Tommy. This is a little close to home in Alaska. oh not How do you circumcise a redneck in ah southern Alaska? Because that's where the rednecks are in Alaska.
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Oh, yeah. Is that around Louisville? It is. Louisville. Louisville. Louisville. Louisville, in Southern Alaska. How do you circumcise a redneck? Because joke of the week has to offend everybody. And I just wonder this week. It's rednecks.
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Wow. And the last this week is hit people that drank 145,000 gallons of beer. right Take away a shotgun. but No, sort no. Circumcise a redneck. Circumcise.
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They don't have shotguns. Thank you, Brett. It took me a second, but i get it. ah Get out your dick, shooter. Put your dick away. Cut their wife's lips off.
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with the Oh, with very close. With a walrus tusk. All right, I'm going to summarize and go. In southern Alaska, where the rednecks look.
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Oh, that's what you said. Yes, how do you circumcise redneck? Okay. Kick his sister in the jaw.
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Wow. wow So originally that joke was a Kentucky joke. Well, obviously you've never been to Southern Alaska, Tom. I think the hills were prettier in Alaska. It's the 51st state for goodness sake. It's colder.
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you can You can cut glass in Alaska, Tom. Well, it's another episode of a solid four beer thoughts. We're so glad you were here. I hope you were too. We're going to get back to other normal conversation. I think we've got a beer mile coming up soon. I don't know when, but hopefully not next week. I think I'm gone next week.
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But ah if you have any ideas, you can send them to us, 4solidbeers at gmail.com. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow wherever you get your podcasts. Until next week, I'm Tom. I'm Jeff. I'm AJ Link. I'm sorry if you fell asleep during this episode. You survived another episode.
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