Behind The Smoke: NASCAR Las Vegas | Episode 10 | ALL THE SMOKE | SHOWTIME Basketball

It's a yellow line right there. They'd be going as fast as they can and when they come off it's a yellow line. They gotta be going forty five miles right when they get off the track. When they get to that line. Brought some pilot that's crazy back in bag. It's it's always fun. Jack was scared to getting the pace car. But it's about to call my wife, but I said up then and he was cool. Had a good time. But now work sided Manna's cars, something new

for both of us. Great experience. Looking forward to meeting Bubba and then joined the weekend festivities. Honor all the smoke, NASCAR money Lion, it's a movie you have Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, former NBA players, and now you guys have a massive podcast, All the Smoke. It's one of the biggest sports broadcasts out there right now. It's an honor to have you guys into the home. We feel special.

If you guys were to say top three athletes to ever exist, top three at least to ever exist, I'm going Muhammad Ali, Serena Williams, Michael Jordan, and Lebron James can say yeah. I was about to say time. I don't He's not just because I'm a golfer. So I say Tiger okay, um Lebron Tiger and number one, UM Tom Brady, Tom Brady one. He's just in the mix.

Okata think too. I mean you think like Bo Jackson professional athlete and two real sports Dion Sanders, professional ath I mean those are you know the list of stuff you know, and then some people say Jim Brown, Jim Thorpe. You know, there's a lot of tremendous athletes. What's it like getting a deal and getting your first you know bonus. How don't you know where that que my first million m I've seen it. You guys did with your first

what was the first signing check? How what's the process like? Yeah, my first you know I was some a guy that came in on minimum deals, you know what I mean. So my deals were three hundred, four hundred, five hundred thousand, you know, the first few years, and to be honest with you, at the end of every summer, I was broke because in our financial literacy is something that's talked about often now, but do you think late nineties, early

two thousand's it wasn't talked about now. We talked about houses, cars, jewelry, women, everything, but you know, how to save what we're all working for. So um with no background. I came from food stamps and drugs, so I didn't really have any kind of representation that showed me, you know, Okay, we'll put this away and save this and do this invest this. So, like Jack said, when it came in and went out

even faster. So it took me about maybe maybe going into your four or five maybe to really start understanding, Okay, I'm gonna get this amount and put this aside. Thank you, Thanks for having this man, man, thanks for having us bro, Thanks for having us bro all the smoke bangas takeover. Just locked in with our brought ice coffee. Shout out to them, man, great podcasts. Learning how to FIRSTI fi your money, make some money, save some money, our money

line or learn how the money. Yeah, learn how the money. Shout our money line and build the way baby line because they pay us. Take over Las Vegas. Shout out of the money line. We're in the Blue Wire studio at the Wind Hotel. We got my brother Jack, hey, and I think we might have officially made it right here because we got something I haven't wanting to get since I thought of the show, but we finally got him. Here. You ready for him? There he is, Bubba Wallace, Bubba Man.

We appreciate your time. Yeah. Man. As you get into racing cars, uh, I was nine and um, you know, ever since living in Concorde, it was just you know, all about having found no responsibilities and the next thing, you know, you get into racing and you climb the ladder and next thing you know, it was like we would race in one series, get really good at it, moved to the next one, get really good at keep moving, moving moving. The next thing you know, it's like, hey,

NASCAR's next. It's like Okay, cool, let's keep going. He tells any of other stories you had running with m j H m j um. I thought it was I thought it was really cool of how it how it all came about. Um. Then he went down to play at the grove and uh, he texts me, He's like, hey, what are you doing? At six thirty. It was like, nothing, sit on the couch. All right, I'm gonna call you.

So I'm sitting there six thirty, six forty five. Then he's notoriously late six seven o'clock, rolls around calls me, hey, what are you doing. I was like, sitting on the couch because here somebody wants to talk to you. It was m j This is my first time I ever talking to m Jake. And he said, hey, we do this deal. Ain't no more running in the back, like all right, digging at me. And I'm like, all right,

sounds good. Yeah, okay, So I thought that was pretty special. Um. But m J man, he's just he's competitive and uh loves to loves to poke the bear in bed against you and uh, just just just to motivation. And he'll he'll like in the moment he's you know, joking around and hey, I'll bet against you here, but then he'll pull you aside and he's like, you know what I'm doing right, and then get results and he'll be like once again, Bubba Wallas, big shout out. Money Line is

he's my favorite persons. Okay, I can have all I might do this. That's the most important part because I'm farting with money Line to get away to Joan once exactly once, yes, sir, okay, all right. How do you that all the smoke NASCAR talk every money on from my honey cameras that money can't get my sister. That's serious. I love that they all got James in the pit. M J. How you doing, man? I'm man, this is this NASCAR ship is a tough experience. Man. We appreciate

you guys. You know a lot of us to get a part of it. I know Jack Cardy told you we need you on the show at some point, though, Jake, I hear that. I'm still kind of a because every time I talked to Mike, I'll see Mike, I'm like a kid in the candy store. But you know, m J to know that we're interested in this sport. You know what I'm saying and would be on All the Smoke soon. I can say that too, but just to hear from the goat man. To get a call from

its great. But yeah, we're in this space now take it to leave it Nascar all the smoke jam J just tek me So I got we gotta and him talking about that yesterday I said this is I feel like we talk something. That's it. Say all you gotta do talk to him. You can finish up and get get him on our show. Yeah, he texts me, We're all good, We're all good. We're all good. Goat to text me'd be all good, We're good. The top ten, dance to the final round and then you gotta really different.

So this is the worst place the right get right, Kay this second to huddle Tim, I wouldn't get the latter open for a twenty nine point four. We think we will be a three yeah, three round a free set of a look more than a bit. I think all of the ska. You know, let's saying that the kid just round a fifty two right now, he's off right now. The pots man they just brought. Kay, we get on the phone one goat now we getting escorted. But I'll never going We're going to day. I'll be

bouncer Jim j didn't call me. Now we getting escorted by another goat man? What's going on? Man? This man? You get do you? So? I'm pretty sure you get the boxes to Jordan every other month. They just so much it, right, I love it. I love it. Well, we appreciate you having us in here. So explain to us a little bit what it is. We had to duck our heads even coming in here. So what is this like a locker room? So that's our race shop on wheels. So the hall are goes to all the

races and we actually have six truck drivers. Now we're surprised. There's a lot of diversity in this that people unless you're a real fan, you don't know, like, yeah, it's just kind of a like a unknown like it's it's there, it's keeply here, and it's from all over. You know, it's not just you know the States. There's people coming from Europe. Now, I love it that are fed up with like one stuff, sports car stuff. There's you told us a cool story if you might re sharing it

about Kobe. You went to a game in Charlotte one time, and tell us a little bit about the story you're telling us before we go on camera. That's what it's like fourth quarter moments, right, That's in NASCAR. We have three stages in our race. So the final stage is the who's who. Like, that's how you win, and you have to perform when the tracks rubber it in. It's usually the slickest. At that point. You know, you're fatigued, it's been a long day, but you've got to find

that fourth quarter moment. And Yeah, I was at a at a Bobcat game. I was like a decade ago. Kobe had two points on the board. I wasn't a team. I mean, we're all there, like, what the hell is going on? Maybe just had an all fight, right, So six minutes ago, I'll remember vividly he has two points.

Fourth quarter, the podcasts are up by twenty. At the end of the game, Kobe's got like twenty six points and the Lakers win, and it's just like, that's that fourth quarter, Like this is this is how it works. That's really does that's the show and that's that fourth quarter. Yeah, we appreciate you. I'm glad you guys here. You're looking forward to the race tomorrow. But you know, best of luck with your health getting back and may thanks fans, a big thanks to the eleven team. Uh, Kurt Bush,

we just went inside the hall. I got a chance to sit down and talk to him. Shout Steve, Oh Steve, everyone who made it happen. We appreciate you guys, money line um man. Just excited the more we can continue to learn the marks out of him about the big race tomorrow. Uh, you don't got a chance to sit down with Bubba yesterday, Kurt today, I mean Jackie Dot, I mean you talked to him. We talked to him j earlier. Ja Cob shout to no brother Todd gives Yeah,

I think we talked to him today. To it. It's just been a movie, man, a great experience and what we all need to know and what we can tell the people. Yeah, you gotta see the diversity here. There's a lot of leading this sport. It's surprized good money here too. Yeah, some good money makes some good money

being around the sport. So excited man. We're about to get to go back right now, do a little bit of golfing at the win, kick our feet up, and then come back from the race tomorrow, man, So you gotta stay locked in all the smoke NASCAR Las Vegas money Line take over game day. Man, It's Sunday, Final Day, Race day. You know we've had a great two days here. Pace Car on Friday started learning about it. Spark Jack's mind.

Now he's a fucking NASCAR guru. Ask him anything he knows. Yesterday, we've got to sit down with Kurt Bush, see the qualifying times. And now we're here. Man, you ready to do it? Money line cry, hit it big? What make it here? Are you good? You do good? So I said the twenty three eleven family, Well we do is win. MJ is not involved in anything that we don't win. I shout at Tony ham Side to Kirk shot to tie, give us a bubble, let's give I saw our car. You see the car and he got twenty three and

eleven on it. So what's your what's your game with them? This is the game day? So we're what did what did the day normally like on this? Yeah? So like right now and yeah we have we knock out. We have a usually me have a mean grease and stuff like we have one or two pretty quick. Um and then we'll head over to our team meeting and I go back and then I kind of get ready and have probably a big car blood there and then go back out race. I was just about yourself. Yeah, yeah,

that's when I go back. I I enjoyed being by myself most of the time anyways, and like that's how like all athletes are with Yeah, with as much stuff going on that you're talking about, I mean that I think that. I mean all the way the fans and the sponsors love it, but like I couldn't imagine that the NBA player, like you couldn't really have access to be right up until I drive, Like yeah, that's what. Yeah,

so that's gonna Yeah, that's definitely changed for me. I feel like it's the biggest thing for me, especially in the highest level. I feel like it's just like having everybody on top of you. Like I think that's something that's definitely changed. I don't have coping with but that's like it's been I think it's said, and then you still have to meet greeds and things. But national anthem,

that's finally like that's the game. Time we're locking. That's yeah, that's when I flower zone in like National anthem like kind of don't hear it. Sometimes it's just like boom. But yeah, with us NASCAR, like we're always out there with the fans or different different moments for photos and things like, which is great, not like any other sport. And that they guaranteed to come back out. So you

have a lot of specie. You're got to support. I mean, you're focuses I mean all sports and support with you're focus here. But you learned that, you know what I mean. Took to me and she's like when I heard that, like we really had, Like you guys don't have really a lot of your own time right before the races. It's like, wow, that's interesting. Yeah, it's just compartmentalizing it up and just separating it. Yeah. I like that, Harve and talk about that in there me you'll get there

with that. Come. Yeah, that's a team. George, how healing you don't want to hit it? Gotta ask you the same question. I actually actually yeah, how he's gonna getting boxes and having shoes to show up in the house all the time. Also growing up as a big guy, I mean I grew up in the city in Charlotte, so I'm I grew up with, you know, all the shoes and everything. So I was like, you know, I always want to get my hands out in Jordans and so be able to you know race, Yeah, be able to. Yeah,

that's the coolest thing. I like a lot of a lot of support and that's it's it's super cool. I got a great collection. Now get yeah, yeah, that's gonna. It's gonna. You know, I'm really gonna work. Let's go. I want to. It's really cool. I just signed you to get back. Do I sign today? So it's anything. What's up else? How you guys doing? Good luck to that guy you shut it? Sure? Dr Man, welcome are actually we're in your thanks another goal. We appreciate you

walking to us. You go by Rocco. How did you find the MASCAR Sport Career Services away Forest University Athletic Department. You know, they happened to be in North Carolina. So at the same time, I was a big dude in Winston had a lot of attention playing football. Little five ft five race car driver at Winston said, hey, dude, you know he met me like I love Wake Forest football. That's how it started because he said, when you go to the race track with me, and I said, why

just come with me. I didn't know what he was talking about little Bobby canals and went to seilanm. He brought me to the race track because he was racing that night and he was planning to wreck two or three guys and he needed me to walk behind him when he goes to the hallers or when they come to him. So when he wrecked them and they came at him, whooped the whoop, and I'm standing like this, they changed their mind. Then that turned into have you

ever thought about doing pit crews? Heard you? If not the one of the best in the pits. That's relatively speaking for my time. Look what I was competing against when I came in. I was four years old to fifty uh thirty seven inch VERD prime conditions. So I'm competing against guys who were MCCA next their whole life, worked on cars, smoked cigarettes, never worked out, drink all day. But they were awesome to what they did within their competition.

So yes, I did have an advantage competing against guys like that, But over time we changed the game to the point where the attention to detail that I felt like I could put on performance and that I demanded not only from myself but from my teammates because you had to teach them how to be a team. And then once you get on your first team that you

have a chance to win. It changes the game because anybody can pit a car when it doesn't matter, but when everything's on the line, seconds are online in positions in racing, you're not only costing your team money in status, but at the end of the day, repeated mistakes are not tolerated in this sport. You're also an on air personality. Now for NASCAR, can you talk to us about your weekly show? Yes, I have a show feed on the ground. That's how it starts off. Started from going to the

race with somebody. How you got your own that's crazy, man, Well, dude, this has to be seen. Long story short, How are we going to validate what we're preaching if you don't see That's how I felt. That's what I felt with football, and this is why the show came about because nobody would believe you until they saw it, until they came to the track. Everybody who did not know NASCAR once they came to the track was a fan instantaneously. Then once they saw the pitch stop. I knew they loved it.

Rockal Man, we appreciate your time. Continue to inspire. You got two new fails over here. We'll definitely be back. He's ready. Yeah, we appreciate you man. We'll definitely catch up with you again. And the pit sweez me levin ready to start start your engines. You're about to hear that in the minute. Yeah, yeah yeah. And then women in sports. You've obviously been connected to NASCAR for a long time, but obviously they're starting to have to see

more representation. What does that mean to someone like yourself? Well, it's great for me to see because when I started out there weren't any track presidents that were female, and so if you don't see females and high positions, it's started to imagine what's out there. So, um, it's great for me now that I'm at Sonoma, I can show other women that there's career mode. Don't just have to be a driver either. There's lots of other things. You think, well, now what is you? I mean, you have a lot

of responsibility. Can you kind of briefly break that down what that is to our fans? Sure? So, um, it's basically anything that's happening on at the track on a given weekend. So you guys are seeing the whole scope here. I mean it's getting the fans, getting the property ready, getting the fans in and out of here, the drivers, make sure the competitors are in a good spot. But it's probably two halves of the same hole. It's operations, So how does everything move and and get people in

and out of here safely? And then it's marketing and selling tickets and making sure that people want to come. So so how stressful is that on a race to race basis? Are you kind of like a pro and you it's it's more turn key now or is it just still you're pulling out your hair to the last second? Is all you around? I think you're kind of pulling out your hair to as I kind of mean, you don't let anybody see that, right, You gotta sure everything

looks good. But yeah, I think you're a type a. If you're in this type of business, you want to be out here, so you're always looking for ways to improve. So I come to this race and I just kind of go around and say, oh, this looks good. We should do this at our track, Like somebody doing it better because it's all about ease of the fan. They can do anything they wanted, They can spend their time and money with us, so if they do that, we

want to make sure it's seemed less and fun. I mean, we're not in the business of doing anything but giving people good time. So I hear that. I'm looking forward to that. Will do a pleasure to meet you. Best of luck and thank you for having us. Absolutely yes, Las Vegas take over all the smoke NASCAR money line. Thank you very much for having us. We had a great time. Man Bula Waaa, Kurt on Races an people that came last Man definitely be back. Stay Son