You're listening to the downbeat on the freak. Okay, we have been rocking hard today with all kinds of cool stuff. But yesterday we were discussing the dayton of five hundred because it got postponed to Monday. And another thing that did yesterday to on President's Day when we were live on the air was like we did the Presidential Explosion. We have part two of that. It's more fun facts about presidents you did not know. I promise some of these coming
at you. I found that fascinating yesterday so good. We got through the first fifteen, ending with James Buchanan, which turns out he was probably our first gay president. We just didn't really know. We'll pick it up with Abe Lincoln and move on here. That's at nine. So Daytona gets postponed. We had a little bet riding on it. We had each drafted three drivers. Yeah, and the way we're gonna do is you're going to add up the you know, finishing position, and whoever had the highest total would
lose the bet. Danny Had, Danny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Ty Gibbs, Mike Had, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson and I, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, and Bubba Wallace and we had us damn race yesterday about three point thirty got it going. Let me say something real quick. Yeah, I am probably like the majority of people that are listening to us right now that don't really follow the sport. I don't either anymore, that don't really know much about the sport other than maybe a few of a
handful of the big names. But I will say this, having a little bit of a dog in the hunt, having something somewhat on the line that was awesome. I watched the whole damn thing. Maybe not as the laser focused, but pretty much from stem to stern. I watched that entire race,
and I was into it. I loved it. I want to do this for every major I'd whether it be F one or any of this stuff, because I'm telling you, that is an exciting ass and I know the people that are that are diehards or that that know a lot more about it than me are like, of course, dumbass. I get it, but it's just not in my lane. I opened. I opened my lane options
up yesterday and I had an absolute thrilling blast watching that entire race. I never thought i'd say this, but just the simple fact of having three drivers in that thing and something on the line made me watch it and appreciate it and understand. I have such a greater understanding for for that, for those events in that track in particular, I learned so much. Don't close your mind to it just because it's you know, you think it's just NASCAR watching
that, it's freaking great. I think it was amazing. I love to hear that it was so much fun. Dude. I watched Daytona every year, but I watch a lot of race and if it's on multiple kinds. But I enjoyed yesterday maybe more than I can remem Number two. And it's it's because we had dogs in the hunt, for sure, but just to watch it and you it's not it's so easy to say I don't want to watch cars going around on the circle. Sure, that is what it is.
But if you immerse yourself in it and you start to hear the stories and the strategies more importantly, and the coverage is top notch, Yeah, dude, it really did. Kevin Harvey really good talking really strategy that was well, he's like Romo he's fresh off the track. I think that was his first race. I think he did it last year, right, did he? I think he did it last year. This is year two. Well, when they intro okay, maybe you're probably right, But when they
introed him, they're like my new full time partner. So I don't know if he was just part time last year. I think so. But yeah, he was great providing insight. I mean, he was on the track very recently and has been for twenty years. But yeah, I'm glad you hear you say that, because I already liked racing, but I really enjoyed yesterday because I just to hear it all man, to hear the strategies and the tire strategies and when you're just gonna splash a gas and yes, it's
sort of interesting. The stage things, you know, is you're gonna kind of you know, we're not going to win this race, but we can make a run at stage two. Yeah, so we're just gonna splash gas and our tires are gonna be worn, and yeah, that'll hurt us in the next you know, in the in the big picture, but we're gonna make a run at this That was great. My guy Ryan Blaney won stage two and I was like, hell, yeah, I'm gonna win this race tonight. I mean, good shape, gonna win the bet, not gonna
have to sweat anything. And then we had ricks as we come down to close this bad boy out because there's one wreck very early in the race, first dozen laps or so, and then it was caution free, with the exception of the caution they naturally put in after the stages. No crashes until
whatever seven or eight laps, that's whatever it was. And you could tell because they run in that formation and they're drafting like crazy, and then you just can almost feel the tension building as their impatience builds, and once anyone goes for anything, or just a five percent increase in aggression by the drivers, it's just a boiling pot that you know is gonna blow. And it did, and they took out hell half the field, right eighteen cars,
eight teen eighteen cars. It's like watching Kevin from the office bring in that huge tub of chili, you know, like you know, he's waddling, he's having a hard time. It's got to go and it had to be chili, you know, And then there it goes I dropped some chili on the ground and that wreck. I saw them office. What happened? What happened? Kevin? Michael told me to bring chili today and I brought it to the office. Jim tripped me and I fell and chili went everywhere.
Kevin from the office joins a list of dingu's characters, along with any Australian man and Sir Perr don't remember how that's it? That's it idiots. And then you know when there's a crash out size, you're looking at a half an hour delay. Yeah, but they spent almost the entire delay showing you fifty different camp angles from every car, inside the car, looking at the drivers. It's it was great, fascinating. I mean back bumper cams,
front bumper cams, every angle, imaginable, every speed. Let's let's take a look at this in full speed. You get such a yeah, full audio. You get audio between the pit crews and their crew chiefs with the drivers. Things that are said, and I know that there's probably a lot of swearing, so they have to cut that stuff up on the fly, edit stuff out, but everything's recorded. Everything. This would hurt your fan base of people go into races. But another reason why I was I was
more invested is because this race was happening on a Monday. We had no MAVs, like the Stars were playing, and I had a little bit of you know, kind of scoreboard watching there a little bit. But the fact that it was just during the week at night got time. Then I get, I think I can do that better than Sunday afternoon a lot of things I might be doing. So that's another thing, the weeknight NASCAR race. Yeah, I'm interested in that. And it goes until it's under the lights.
Yeah, it was great. I loved it. It was It was very fun, but I lost a bit. Dandy's guys finished fourteen seventeen nineteen, so he had fifty it was your total. Mike was eleven twelve thirty three fifty six total and I was six thirty thirty two sixty eight. Bubba Walls so you had the top finisher out of the nine guys we all drafted was Bubba Wallace finishing sixth. But you got wiped out in some of the
crashes and Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney got hitting that big wreck. Well, we thought you had a chance with Bubba because he seemed to he remained in the thing after the big crash, and he was rising into the top. He was in the top twenty, I believe at one point. And I'm thinking Bubba might save this for Kevin, you know, because it initially we thought, oh, well he's done because he's got two two drivers that are completely knocked out. But so what do I have to do? Now?
I have to do it? Wear a NASCAR shirt. It's threefold. I've purchased a specific NASCAR shirt. I don't know. I'll be here in like a week. Okay, you have to wear that for a week straight. Okay, now I don't know. Okay, we're gonna have good weather actually, so he can do just a T shirt. T shirt and I want you to prance around. Look good. You got to walk around, can't hide. You don't have to. But we'd like a picture or two in public for sure, if but that's not part of the bed. So you
have to wear the same T shirt. Yes, I'm an extra mile guy. I got this for a full week. You have to draw the winner, and Danny is the winner. He had the lowest total score. A beautiful, full effort, beautiful picture illustration of Bill Elliott. Yes, who's Bill Elliott? He drove the McDonald's car and the Budweiser car for many years. A legend offer you if I could I pay for someone who is a
good artist to commission a beautiful piece of artwork of Bill Elliott. I offered last night to do it for sixty eight dollars, which is coincidentally the point total that you had that landed you in this conundrum. I think it's possible that I could have a beautiful piece of art delivered to the stud tomorrow during the show. Are you going to get Vernon Wells Senior on the case? Okay, you're gonna get the guy from prison to do it, aren't you
a norm? No? He's not incredible, you know he is like top Yeah, yeah, he's incredible. Sports artist. Who's the guy that draws pictures for us the cartoonists. I did give a bit of a prompt to my buddy Mick him Inez, and he said he would be will to bring it up here, even though he lives in Mineral Wells. Don't make him. I told him not to, But I think what he's done is beautiful. He's already done it. Well, he's got a rough draft that I
don't want you guys to see it till it's finished. How about you have to go pick it up? Oh no, no, no no, I'll just print out a graphic. You know. He said he'd be willing to you know, he'd be willing to come up and drop it off. He wants to come hang out in the big city. You know, maybe I'll make hot dogs. You're okay with that trade off rather than me drawing mill ll Aft like, I think it's funny for you to have to draw. But yes, no, dude, you're the loser. Danny's the winner.
Danny's getting the big prize here, So I think he'd rather have a nice piece from mixing. I would look as long as it's suitable, suitable for framing. Elliot see moother ding dong. He looks like every odd every day a ding. See. That's better than me doing that, right, Yeah, yeah, that's fine. I don't I don't care. I'm kind of not involved. And then that's the Twitter. Okay, this is the caveat. You have to is it three times? Three times in a week in
a week, and if how are you? I would just do them back to back Monday morning. But you have to really, yeah, early bury these things. You have to three times in a week, like do the retweet with comment with quote, yep, with a quote tweet and all you can write is wood smash. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, yeah. Now you can be smart and go to like the Watermelon Commission of Texas or
help you get through this. You can do what I had planned on doing if when I was pretty sure I was going to lose last night, I was preparing my tweets I have, and you know who's going to be first, Julie Okay, yeah, maybe a nice picture of her and Emily promoting the mom game. Retweet it. It's wood smash. I've just retweeted. That's harsh. I was going to go hard if I lost this bet.
Yeah, I'm going at you. I just retweeted everybody's Dan McDowell, TC Fleming and I think that's Josh remote Mill Pizza, who are apparently at a taping of Doctor Phil's show today, whoa every tweeted them with a wood wood smash. Oh you're already doing this. I did one, Okay, I'll get two more to go. I'll brain I'm push it throughout the week. There's no time to but you can get those done whenever. The T shirt will arrive in like a week, so maybe week after next, Okay,
depending on what it gets here. If it doesn't fit, it's not bad. It looks nice. You're so full of crapest most nonsensical explosion of color. It's actually not tackiness. Okay, Well, it was going to be all day Dale ear and Heart tank top, and it's just his face and body like huge. But then, as I often do, I picture I'm a thirty three chance I losing this thing, and I don't want to rock
this tank. Ude. I'll tell you what if if any one of us lost the the Dale earned Heart tank top, bet we would all be patrick ewing the heck out of that thing under t No, I'm dead serious. I will actually request to have this shirt after you get done paying your bed. Like it's kind of like hipster cool. It's vintage. Yeah, it is vintage really and vintage Nascar learns in New Orleans. I will go to a couple of thrift shops with Christina or just walking around Magazine Street, like
nineties Nascar is very hot amongst the kids. Okay, serious, I know that sounds weird, like ugly jackets Nascar. Really, we just swamped me down at the no one knows the kids sneaker con Yeah, just swap me down there. Tons of those big Dale Earnhardt shirts are big, right, Yeah, hot items. Can you tell us a little bit about the winter
and then we'll cold call to lead off the next segment. Okay, So the winner of the of the five hundred was William Byron, who was actually one of the guys featured in the Netflix Full Full Go because he made the playoff last year. Anyway, he one hundred percent is one of these kids who is a video gamer, racing sim dude, and it's just pretty wild that this dude just won the Daytona five hundred. Now, he has been a successful driver for seven eight years, real car driver. You know,
he was Exfinity before he was this. He was in the truck series Craftsman. Before that, he was other, you know, low level, more local disciplines. But this dude was a little kid and he was played video games and then he got like a kind of a shoddy simulator, a little wheel and some pedals, and his parents, as you can imagine, we're
like, get the hell off this thing. Stop playing your games, and he just kept playing him and trying to save money and getting a little bit better of a simulator and saying, this is something I want to pursue, Like I like, this is not just me playing games. There's some tweets of him asking questions to some guys who won, you know, eye racing races, like how to hold your tires better, or speed around this corner, put on a very special set of match tires. Any ice cream if
you like. But there's tweets of him like asking questions to successful eye racers and he just was obsessed with this and it's really I think and lost, I'm an idiot. The only sport that you can actually go this route because the simulators are so good, so accurate. Max Verstappen gets on a simulator
very regularly, I mean all the best of the best race simulators. Because if the air pressure is exactly like it nowadays, the tire where and how your driving style affects your tires, and like it's perfect now it's just like
the exception of the danger. I guess it is the perfect simulation. But this dude, William Byron, who just won the five hundred absolutely is one of those kids who just twelve thirty years ago, was at his parents' house just playing a video game and his dad kept seeing his results and he was beating everybody at these simulators and his dad has is like, Jesus, you're maybe really good at this, and then we have to make the decision, how do we get you in a real damn car? And they did it.
There's a lot of money in racing, it costs a lot, but they got him in some of the low level leagues and right out of the gates, he was really really good because he was ready because the work he put it in simulators. I don't know it was ten thousand hours or if that rule of exactly applies, but before he ever jumped into a real car, he had done more laps than even these kids who are go kart racing growing up, which is the traditional way you become a NASCAR driver or a
race car driver at all. And he absolutely took the the trail of video gamer turned racer who's now a Daytona five hundred cham incredit. That's insane. And I have a cousin she's sixteen and she does motocross and it's like, how do you get into that? But she started early early age. Her dad used to do some of that, but like started early age and just like kept doing it. But there's no sim for motocross. I don't think
like that's And I was like, how you're found out starting that? That really might just be your dad taking an interest and what is my son really doing in that room? Yeah, it might just be that to go, oh, he's winning, like because he's probably not going no, dad, look I'm winning. I'll look at that. He might be, but he but maybe not. That's a good parent kind of shepherd your kid's interests, you know. It's it's recognizing the interest and the potential that the interest has.
I think they took him to a race at Martinsville when he was six or seven years old and he's like, oh my god, I love this and then cool, but you're not just winning at Mario Kart, like for the dad to acknowledge it's not just a video game. This is a high level simulator that he is setting the fastest lap times among twenty adults, you
know or real you know, realer. His mom and dad probably had like hard conversations like do you really want to spend this much money, yes, similar, or like like, I don't know if this is the right way to spend our money here, you know, and then just pay it off now or spend one hundred thousand dollars on school that the kid doesn't want to
do. Right, You always push your kid in the direction of what they're interested in and foster that, you know, especially if they do because a lot of kids maybe don't show interest in anything right that they want to do. If they're showing something they want to do, like invest in that, yeah, I totally agree. But I think a lot of kids really want to do video games all day. Yeah, all right, which is not generally Well, there's a difference between killing time and showing a real passion and
aptitude for something too. And clearly the kid that won the Daytona had that, you know, fifteen years ago, and his parents had a keen eye enough to see it and nurture it. That's cool. And I notice that there's a difference between Fortnite, which I love, and Call of Duty which I love and I Racing which is very accurate and uh and a possible track to where he is now, which is the damn Daytona five hundred champs. Yeah, fantastic. We'll coming up next though. We're gonna cold call.
He may not even answer, so have something else ready. Oh it's the Presidential Explosion Part two. Oh, so we're covering. We're covered, We're good. But we're gonna call Ron Gill again, a man who I have not talked to him thirty years. We used to work at a golf course together. I gave him a very incredible piece of NASCAR membor Billy after I went to the Daytona five hundred, just handed it to him because he was my friend. And I guess we're just gonna ask him if, hey,
man, you remember that it's gonna be great. Maybe he will, Maybe it's dangerous. He might not even be there. There's only one way to find out. WHU who I am? H. We'll do it all. You can have it all next in ninety seven one the Free